Download your practice files for the lesson here ▶ www.patreon.com/bernth 🤘 I made exercise video play-alongs, guitar pro files, tabs, backing tracks, and a harmonization course workbook for you :)
That last example mixing up the different harmony types, i got chills when the octaves came in. Can't wait to try it out! Even without the harmonization man, Dopamine is a masterpiece. A standout track on a stellar album!
It would be great to do an example where the harmonies have to fit the chords. As it is, there are a bunch of non-chord tones, which sound cool, too, but we're kind of missing here considering chord changes... Suspensions, resolutions, etc. Maybe a more advanced part 2 video?
Im sorry man, I swore I had hit subscribe months ago and apparently I didn't. I made sure I did this time! Absolute masterpiece of a lesson my friend. I am happy that you showed how to harmonize on that beautiful solo hitting chord tones. It really made it hit home!
Protip: if you identify a scale your solo is in (let's say X dorian), go to X+3-halftones lydian and play the lines analogically in a lydian position. Bored? Switch to X+7-halftones aeolian for the fifths sound. It's easier to think of harmony lines as a shift within the heptatonic scale instead of going up the scale individually - all you need is to learn the modes of a heptatonic scale and identify them with numerals (1 - aeolian, 2 - locrian, 3 - ionian, 4 - dorian, 5 - phrygian, 6 - lydian, 7 - mixolydian). The numerals will tell you what kind of an interval you're shifting the harmony by. Sorry if this is obvious or, quite the opposite, too complicated, but I'm just really hyped to have found it out myself 😄
Thank you Bernth!!!!! I have been trying to wrap my head around how to harmonize melodies. This is definitely going to help me out a lot! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication you put in to your lessons.
Hey Bernth! Firstly, very nice lesson as usual. Secondly, i listened to your album on Spotify a few weeks ago, and bought it instantly after. Since you always say you love shredding i was expecting it to be a bit overplayed, but it was surprisingly tasteful! I have to ask if Jason Becker was an influence to you, because i got clear vibes from his first album Perpetual Burn, just darker. To me your style is a mix between him and John Petrucci, and i mean it as a compliment haha btw very nice job on not just the guitars but the drums as well, very glad you didn't go full double kick like a lot of metal songs do... I've received my physical copy yesterday and it's been on repeat since! Especially When it Rains, it Pours. Brilliant! And shout out to Daniel Fellner, because the mixing is top tier! Keep up the awesome work!
Thank you for another AWESOME lesson Bernth. The Pateron material and lessons you provide is some of the best I've ever seen, and has expanded my playing. I am in my 50's and have been in a rut for some time. After I joined your Pateron a few months ago and started practicing your lessons and techniques, I see a tremendous amount of progress in my playing abilities and music theory. You have changed the way I approach practicing, playing and writing music. Your lessons can be applied to any genre of music. Thank you.
6 months ago i tried to find good video about harmonies - i understood that after watching a lot of stuff on different channels. Finally someone did it so clearly in one video 💪
Listening to Bernth describe something I learned on my own as musically challenging sure does make me feel good about myself, until he proceeds to explain why it’s actually simple. Then I’m thinking “that sounds about right”
I just stumbled on your channel and this content is exactly the type of stuff I’ve been craving. I’m not into metal so much but wanna be well rounded. These exercise based lessons are my jam!!!! See you on all your next videos!!!
Wow! Magic! Thank you for the time effort and sharing of this info 🙏 I had heard this years ago and always had trouble with it.. this lesson is such a good example of so many things.. not the least of which is the kindness to share what you’ve learned in an easy to understand and caring way.. 🙏 Legend! Keep up the great work and all the best for your future you deserve the best.. 🎸🔥🙏🕊👼
Thank you. I have understood the theory for this but never thought to try different option for sections of my songs that I was not happy with. Good stuff!
I was always fascinated by the soundtrack of Dynasty Warriors games, because they use a lot of harmonization. Especially at 7:13, I can hear a lot of it.
Thank you Bernth! As always, amazing thoughts! Thank you for your time!By the way, I have been playing like this for quite a long time under your exercises) In order to hear myself, I play a third or a fifth!
Sometimes I go full Mastodon and write the second guitar in minor thirds, mainly on repeating verses/chorus, that gives it a "darker" sound, and I love it...
On a melody harmony you must choose one of the intervals or you are allowed to mix them? For instance, can you harmonise part of the melody in thirds, part inf fifths and part is sixths or you must harmonise the whole melody on the same interval?
@@DevanArya don't worry, I experience this often myself ! 😜 I'm bypassing this now by quickly taking notes/questions while visioning a video the first time, and if there are still unanswered questions I can ask them after he end of the lesson. I forget my questions quickly, hence the writing down part.
Hey Bernth, could you do a video on fast tremolo picking on a single note? Is it different when playing on lower strings and higher ones? Should we use only wrist motion for consistency or should we add arm movement and finger joints too? I've watched a lot of videos about this, some say just use wrist, some say just play as fast as you can, then clean it up later. Most of them just explain the technique and don't even show the playing fast part lol I just wanna play some gojira 😅
Hi Bernth. It would be great if you did a video on diatonic vs parallel harmony. It's a grey area in yt music and something that nobody I've seen has articulated clearly.
if you use the fifth to harmonize with, what note do you choose on the 2nd note of the minor scale? the fifth of the second would be out of the scale....
I Missed harnonizing by 7th!! Those are so cool when you would like give a better sense of turn-around in the last chord of your progression… even you can experiment aug7. Aditionally, I would add a way that is more jazzy/prog, it is to use the scale-chord relation (key center change), in the chords of your progression. It will makes it harmonically more ineteresting, IE. Use different dorian modes in your minor chords and Mixolidyan in your major chords (and harmonize them as you said in the video), it really would change the flavour of your melodies. Also chormatic aproach to the next chords can be harmonized! Good video… would be interesting for your audience to see a more advanced aproaching. 🤘🏻
Me Years Ago in my band: We should harmonize using a mix of fifths, thirds, and maybe some spicy sixths. My Band Years Ago: What? No. That's not how music theory works. You can't do that! Me: But, it looks like it totally works that way. I know I'm knew to all this but... Them: Shut up! We know what we're doing and you'll just screw everything up. Play what we tell you to! Me Now: Ha, I was right. :)
I have a mental block. I can't understand. I apologize for my ignorance. Shucks. Thanks for trying to get through to me. All I can do is continue to blues. I have blues. 🙂
Download your practice files for the lesson here ▶ www.patreon.com/bernth 🤘
I made exercise video play-alongs, guitar pro files, tabs, backing tracks, and a harmonization course workbook for you :)
Danke schön!
Awesome sauce!! Yes Dopamine very beautiful song.
@@jasonday8334 Thanks Jason, happy you like it :)
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That last example mixing up the different harmony types, i got chills when the octaves came in. Can't wait to try it out! Even without the harmonization man, Dopamine is a masterpiece. A standout track on a stellar album!
0:41 Main Guitar Solo
1:30 Octaves
2:59 Thirds
5:32 Fifths
7:13 Sixths
8:59 His Personal Favorite Example
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It would be great to do an example where the harmonies have to fit the chords. As it is, there are a bunch of non-chord tones, which sound cool, too, but we're kind of missing here considering chord changes... Suspensions, resolutions, etc. Maybe a more advanced part 2 video?
Im sorry man, I swore I had hit subscribe months ago and apparently I didn't. I made sure I did this time!
Absolute masterpiece of a lesson my friend. I am happy that you showed how to harmonize on that beautiful solo hitting chord tones. It really made it hit home!
I love this simple tips. Your video editing has been great and very engaging, it’s even nicer to visualize how you’re talking about
Protip: if you identify a scale your solo is in (let's say X dorian), go to X+3-halftones lydian and play the lines analogically in a lydian position. Bored? Switch to X+7-halftones aeolian for the fifths sound. It's easier to think of harmony lines as a shift within the heptatonic scale instead of going up the scale individually - all you need is to learn the modes of a heptatonic scale and identify them with numerals (1 - aeolian, 2 - locrian, 3 - ionian, 4 - dorian, 5 - phrygian, 6 - lydian, 7 - mixolydian). The numerals will tell you what kind of an interval you're shifting the harmony by.
Sorry if this is obvious or, quite the opposite, too complicated, but I'm just really hyped to have found it out myself 😄
Been watching videos on this subject for over an hour!! but THIS is golden and so easy to understand. i now fully understand it THANKYOU!!
Thank you Bernth!!!!! I have been trying to wrap my head around how to harmonize melodies. This is definitely going to help me out a lot! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication you put in to your lessons.
Hey Bernth! Firstly, very nice lesson as usual. Secondly, i listened to your album on Spotify a few weeks ago, and bought it instantly after. Since you always say you love shredding i was expecting it to be a bit overplayed, but it was surprisingly tasteful! I have to ask if Jason Becker was an influence to you, because i got clear vibes from his first album Perpetual Burn, just darker. To me your style is a mix between him and John Petrucci, and i mean it as a compliment haha btw very nice job on not just the guitars but the drums as well, very glad you didn't go full double kick like a lot of metal songs do... I've received my physical copy yesterday and it's been on repeat since! Especially When it Rains, it Pours. Brilliant! And shout out to Daniel Fellner, because the mixing is top tier! Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks so much for taking the time to write this, it means a lot!! Also thanks so much for supporting the music 🙏
Thank you for another AWESOME lesson Bernth. The Pateron material and lessons you provide is some of the best I've ever seen, and has expanded my playing. I am in my 50's and have been in a rut for some time. After I joined your Pateron a few months ago and started practicing your lessons and techniques, I see a tremendous amount of progress in my playing abilities and music theory. You have changed the way I approach practicing, playing and writing music. Your lessons can be applied to any genre of music. Thank you.
Octaves and thirds are my go-to's, but I've kind of forgotten all about fifths and sixths! 😬 Looking forward to spicing things up for my next solo! 🤘
6 months ago i tried to find good video about harmonies - i understood that after watching a lot of stuff on different channels.
Finally someone did it so clearly in one video 💪
Best harmonization video ever.
Never thought about using sth different then 3rds.
Thx Bernth, this video is a real harmony bible!
Greetings from Germany!
Listening to Bernth describe something I learned on my own as musically challenging sure does make me feel good about myself, until he proceeds to explain why it’s actually simple. Then I’m thinking “that sounds about right”
What is the name of the app with the scales? 4:07
I just stumbled on your channel and this content is exactly the type of stuff I’ve been craving. I’m not into metal so much but wanna be well rounded. These exercise based lessons are my jam!!!! See you on all your next videos!!!
This is a really exciting video. I've always defaulted to 3rds... and worked out any problem areas by ear. Lots of great advice here!
Great lesson. I will try this for backing vocals too
Best channel for guitar players that want to SHRED!!
Never thought of sixths. Sounds great!
Wow! Magic! Thank you for the time effort and sharing of this info 🙏 I had heard this years ago and always had trouble with it.. this lesson is such a good example of so many things.. not the least of which is the kindness to share what you’ve learned in an easy to understand and caring way.. 🙏 Legend! Keep up the great work and all the best for your future you deserve the best.. 🎸🔥🙏🕊👼
Thank you. I have understood the theory for this but never thought to try different option for sections of my songs that I was not happy with. Good stuff!
Impressive and amazing tips as usual, thanks for the knowledge.🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Love it, harmonizing is something I'm just beginning to look into. Thanks
I was always fascinated by the soundtrack of Dynasty Warriors games, because they use a lot of harmonization. Especially at 7:13, I can hear a lot of it.
Your tricks are just amazing. Keep it up
SUCH A AMAZING TEACHER THANK YOU!
My brain just imploded watching this haha, great video as always
Thanks Bernth 😊🙏🏾🖤
Thank you Bernth! As always, amazing thoughts! Thank you for your time!By the way, I have been playing like this for quite a long time under your exercises) In order to hear myself, I play a third or a fifth!
Sometimes I go full Mastodon and write the second guitar in minor thirds, mainly on repeating verses/chorus, that gives it a "darker" sound, and I love it...
This is GOLD Captain 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Great advice bro! Exactly what I needed thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you, Bernth.
nice work bro 👏👏👏 Amaze us even more
On a melody harmony you must choose one of the intervals or you are allowed to mix them? For instance, can you harmonise part of the melody in thirds, part inf fifths and part is sixths or you must harmonise the whole melody on the same interval?
Nevermind, the answer of this is at the end of the video, should've have watched the whole before commenting eheh.
@@DevanArya don't worry, I experience this often myself ! 😜
I'm bypassing this now by quickly taking notes/questions while visioning a video the first time, and if there are still unanswered questions I can ask them after he end of the lesson. I forget my questions quickly, hence the writing down part.
Love ur videos man keep it up
What a kickass lesson!
Great video! Best explanation of harmonization even i can understand am(and use) :)
Hey Bernth, could you do a video on fast tremolo picking on a single note? Is it different when playing on lower strings and higher ones? Should we use only wrist motion for consistency or should we add arm movement and finger joints too? I've watched a lot of videos about this, some say just use wrist, some say just play as fast as you can, then clean it up later. Most of them just explain the technique and don't even show the playing fast part lol I just wanna play some gojira 😅
actually I am the beginners but I loved and appreciate your guiter solo tutorial exercise. thanks a lot for such a great lesson.
the tips and tricks are very inspiring, very easy and simple but the harmonization is maintained...
So cool, I can't wait to actually get to a point where I'm playing at this level.
Thank you, this so awesome!
It may sound lazy to harmonize in octaves, but I think it gives a nice Jason Richardson vibe, it also can add thickness and layer in the mix.
Dudeeee. Awesome video just what I need. Try push some more content like this solo/improvisation bit theory'. 🤘🤘🤙
Finally, the only video that makes sense.
Love your content dude, wish we could work together sometime! 🤟
Your guitar has a great screaming sound effect on Dopamine. 🙂
Hi Bernth. It would be great if you did a video on diatonic vs parallel harmony. It's a grey area in yt music and something that nobody I've seen has articulated clearly.
I do subscribe and GAIN BIG! THANK YOU BERNTH!
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Amazing lesson,,,,,,,, Thank you ❤️
that transformer clip got the like already, lol
Thanks man I can’t believe I didn’t pay for this
I want BERNTHS guitar, I would feel complete
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if you use the fifth to harmonize with, what note do you choose on the 2nd note of the minor scale? the fifth of the second would be out of the scale....
I Missed harnonizing by 7th!! Those are so cool when you would like give a better sense of turn-around in the last chord of your progression… even you can experiment aug7. Aditionally, I would add a way that is more jazzy/prog, it is to use the scale-chord relation (key center change), in the chords of your progression. It will makes it harmonically more ineteresting, IE. Use different dorian modes in your minor chords and Mixolidyan in your major chords (and harmonize them as you said in the video), it really would change the flavour of your melodies. Also chormatic aproach to the next chords can be harmonized! Good video… would be interesting for your audience to see a more advanced aproaching. 🤘🏻
Ok nice let's do it
Me Years Ago in my band: We should harmonize using a mix of fifths, thirds, and maybe some spicy sixths.
My Band Years Ago: What? No. That's not how music theory works. You can't do that!
Me: But, it looks like it totally works that way. I know I'm knew to all this but...
Them: Shut up! We know what we're doing and you'll just screw everything up. Play what we tell you to!
Me Now: Ha, I was right. :)
I have a mental block. I can't understand. I apologize for my ignorance. Shucks. Thanks for trying to get through to me. All I can do is continue to blues. I have blues. 🙂
BERNTH I have a question. What strings do you use I need to know
Someone likes Giilmour!!!
Hi... can you make antasia from slash be metal your style
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Hey man give us some jazz lesson sometimes.....:)
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can you mis 3rds and 5ths in that solo?
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Wow sar
Why do you ask to skip 4 notes to play the major sixth?
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Oeeh lets harmonize in minor seconds, tritones and Djent 😅
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sorry, but ya cant improve on perfection and that sounded awesome right off the bat :)
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That was fast! Thanks for tuning in early :)
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