HOW TO VISUALIZE CHORDS & SCALES: A simple, step-by-step method
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2024
- How does the quirky tuning of the G and B strings affect scales and chords? Learn to traverse "the warp" and use the circle of fifths to navigate the fretboard with 80% less memorization. See how it applies to triads, the pentatonic scale, and soloing in the blues.
[Errata: The E major triad is mistakenly labeled as an F major triad at around 3:00. Also, in the circle-of-fifths section, there are 4 step sizes that visit all 12 notes, not 3 as stated (1, 5, 7, and 11 semitones).]
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► Recommended video viewing order:
Full playlist: • Guitar scales made eas...
Individual videos:
1. Use "the warp" to reduce memorization: • HOW TO VISUALIZE CHORD...
2. Master the pentatonic scale with the rectangle and stack: • Two Simple Shapes UNLO...
3. Learn the notes!: • Memorize the fretboard...
4. Intervals: Guitar's secret decoder ring: • Intervals: guitar's se...
5. Understand the modes: • Demystifying the modes...
6. The best way to learn/play the modes: • This hack makes learni...
7. Another easy way to play the modes: • Learn ALL the Modes on...
8. The CAGED system and triads: • Demystifying Triads an...
9. The 3nps system: • Unlock the fretboard w...
10. Instant harmony: • Easy Double-Stop Harmo...
► Keywords: guitar lesson, music theory, circle of fifths, circle of fourths, pentatonic scales, triads, blues soloing
► Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction & Movable Shapes
00:50 - Old-school tuning
02:04 - "The Warp"
02:45 - Moving Triads
03:15 - The Circle of 4ths/5ths
05:05 - Moving Pentatonics
06:05 - The Infinite Fretboard
06:52 - Moving the Blues
► Thanks again to Dave DiCenso, Jeff Gilman, and Jake Shapiro for the intro/exit music "Sea Horses" from the Kilgore Trout Sessions. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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The animations and diagrams are exactly what my brain needed for it to finally to click after YEARS of not getting it. I just needed an engineer to explain music theory to me. I’m so blown away I spent $30 for all of the cheat sheets on his site, glad I did.
Thanks, Boris…much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
This was more useful than 99% of all TH-cam videos about the fretboard
Can't thank the TH-cam algorithm enough for washing this into my feed. Can't thank you guys enough for providing one of the biggest eye-openers in the last few years to me. Very well explained and visualised. All of a sudden I can map my way on the fretboard without knowing anything about boxes or positions. This literally brings it all together and is all you need. Big thumbs up!
Awesome, I'm glad it helped!
Best explanation I have ever seen about how to use patterns and scales, everything started clicking!
Thanks, Henry…glad it helped! The next video will do the same thing for the major scale modes, although if you want a preview, I’ve written a couple of short articles on this over at fretscience.com
Completely agree. And I’ve been playing for so many years and never understood this
and the diagrams help so much too
Same here. Not that I didn't know but just didn't see how you can actually use it efficiently.
The shifting concept accross the different forms of the penta is a real revelation !
So glad it helped!
Subbed. Watched all of your videos. Made my purchase of your bundle to support your channel. As a 60-yr old Mechanical Engineer, I love your systematic approach to teaching music. Thank you.
Teaching is a art form and not everyone can do it.
This guy and channel is by far the absolute best and clearest guitar teacher on TH-cam. You have successfully taken the mystery out the guitar fretboard. Thank you so much for making these videos and blog posts. You have made a huge difference in my understanding of the guitar already. Keep up the great work!!!
Thanks, Todd…your hyperbole is massively appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
The triads explanation blew my mind!
Nothing greater than a great teacher. You are a great teacher. Thank you for sharing.
Much appreciated, John!
I am an IT guy and I knew there was a logical way to understand frets disposition. You are the first one who revealed it an explained it so beautifully. Thank you so much. Looking forward new videos.
I worked in an IT department for 3 months once…I’m glad this was useful for you!
While looking for the "AHA" moment I'v learned a lot. This is one of those moments for me. Putting down the scale patterns and shifting the neck UNDER it opened my eyes to whole new idea. This will help to visualize the whole fretboard. It won't make my fingers move any quicker or instantly improve my creativity but it will sure give me something totally new to work with. Thanks for the great idea! I'll bet my solos will get better quickly.....
Yes, this! Being able to get past the memorization phase is one of the keys that unlocks creativity…technique is another, but there are lots of _other_ TH-cam channels that focus on that 🤣
Your content is easiest to digest. It take genius to do that. You are phenomenal
Thank you!
Best explanation of Pentatonics and the whole fretboard on TH-cam. Everything makes so much more sense now
Thanks, Frank!
Using the Circle of 4ths to memorize the fretboard is the most amazing, elegant, and simple trick that I can't believe I'm only now hearing for the first time. It made clear in 10 seconds what 10 years of playing somehow failed to. Well done man, and please keep up the good work!
Thanks, Michael! I’m glad it was helpful 🎸🧪🤘
We're on the same boat, man. Hahaha! Thank you so much @fretscience, it changes everything. Gosh, took me 17 yrs.
Took me 30 years, so don’t feel bad 🤣🎸🧪🤘
This is the first comment I've ever written simply because you changed my (guitar) life. I couldn't memorise the patterns for over a month, but it just clicked with the video. Thank you so much!!!
Glad I could help! 🎸🧪🤘
You got me subscribed with only two videos published so far.
Please keep up the good work, this is nothing less than magnificent.
Can't wait for more.
Thanks
Thanks, Jose…glad to have you here!
Only commented on videos a handful of times over the last 20 years, but want to extend my deepest gratitude for these amazing lessons. Been studying each of these videos and am now finding fretboard theory so enjoyable to learn. Thank you.
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I was jaded with all the tutorial videos with clickbait titles, everything is easiest, fastest, bestest ... But this one is truly the best, liked and subscribed
Thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
This clicked for me for the first time last year and i have never seen someone explain it on youtube so clearly. Once i realized the tuning system was like "software" for guitar, you load up a tuning system and that produces all the shapes of chords/scales everything made sense. Thanks for this, going to be showing this to anyone that wants to start learning guitar.
Thanks, Matthew! I haven’t done a video on it yet, but I agree about the tuning system analogy, and the same approach gives interesting insights into drop-D and DADGAD tunings.
Honestly mind blown 🤯. I just realized I need to find more content in this visual manner. Such a clear explanation of something that felt too mysterious for a non music person
Definitely check out my other videos…lots of animations like this, and I think they’ve gotten better over time 🎸🧪🤘
Wow, love this explanation it's a good way of visualising the way the scales work together.
Im very thankful for stumbling into your channel!
Glad you’re here! 🎸🧪🤘
Absolutely mind-blowing, a penny dropped watching both your videos. Please keep making content, your teaching style is unrivalled! ❤
You are too kind…thanks!
Bloody hell! What great insight! Thank you for figuring this out and sharing it with us! Superb!
I'm glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
This is absolutely THE best way to present information on the fretboard. What you're showing is exactly the way I try to imagine it in my head. I've subscribed after just two videos. Well done and thank you! 😊
Many thanks!
What a time to learn the guitar, thank you so much for these videos. I've watched countless tutorials on shapes, but these are superior in so many ways! The way you explain it and visualize it at the same time is exceptional. Finally, I can continue my journey in mastering the guitar. For anyone interested, definitely go and watch his other video on triads and how they work in context of scales and what not. Unbelievably helpful, thank you again!
Thanks for your kind words! 🎸🧪🤘
This is a great video that shows how to look at your fretboard while playing for the chord-of-the-moment.
I can't thank you enough for this. I already understood the circle of 5ths on the fretboard but I didn't mentally connect the pentatonic positions relative to the circle of fifths. This is gold! 👍
Awesome, you’re welcome. The next video will do the same thing for the major scale modes…coming soon 🎸🧪🤘
Excellent as always , lot of thoughts and hard work to do this. Thank you
That was an insanely good explanation - and pretty brief too. Kudos and keep rockin'.
Thanks, Clayton!
Love the visuals and the explanations. I have been researching the connections since I started playing a couple of years ago and this is the best presentation I've seen - thank you for putting together.
I appreciate the kind words!
Excellent unlocking of the fretboard.
Thanks, Mario!
This new channel of yours is absolutely awesome!!
I've never heard these systems explained in such a logical yet simple way.
Good luck with your channel, and the website ... just subscribed!! 😍😍
Welcome aboard, Phil…glad you’re here!
Glad to know it’s not just my imagination that I think I recognize the voice and cadence of speech-expanding the world more than just 5 watts at a time.
Great material - thanks for the clear presentation!
Just had a really productive couple of hours practicing this stuff… and I’ve been playing since 1988! 😁👍
An insightful way to revisit these fundamental concepts. Thank you, and well done! 👌👏
That’s awesome to hear…thanks, Thomas!
Love this video. Thank you for making this information available and so easy to understand and digest. I really appreciate your content.
Thanks so much…I’m glad it was helpful!
The final chapter of this video is perhaps the most useful tip I’ve seen in 15 years of playing guitar. Should be mandatory education for the primary school kids who think blues is boring/basic (that was me!)… it turns that simplicity into a tool for mastery of the fretboard. Bravo on this explanation
And it’s just one of many ways to approach improvising over the blues!
This was an amazingly helpful and deeply insightful lesson. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video and help guitar players connect the dots and learn more easily
Thanks, Michael!
You made such a great work! Clarified things that for some not very talented people like me were so complicated to remember or even realize for years. Just in 8 minutes! Thank you so much! You are amazing!
Thanks, Viktor!
The animations are very helpful!
Thanks!
Excellent approach and clearly explained. A great way to visualise the fretboard. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
EXACTLY the kind of guitar content I want to see! PLEASE KEEP ON DOING WHAT YOURE DOING. I found you a few days ago and thought you were a lowkey account that has been around a while, and I only just realized you are new. Excellent content, thank you :)
Thanks, Sean…there’s definitely more on the way. I have a day job and a family, so this is a nights-and-weekends-whenever-I-can sort of operation 🤣🎸🧪🤘
@@fretscienceCould have fooled me. ❤
Wonderfully presented! Anxiously awaiting Part 2 (and beyond!)
Thanks, Dan!
@@fretscience So far you only have 2 videos available, is your plan to make more?
The third video is coming very soon. These take about 15-20 hours of work to get the animations and the script just right. I finished those steps today and now need a couple more hours to record and edit, plus however long it takes TH-cam to do its thing.
I have a full time job, so it’s been taking me 2-3 weeks per video to go from concept to upload
Your approach has transformed the way I use the guitar, saving hours and progressing easily. Thank you so much.
Glad it helped! 🎸🧪🤘
Such great info. I will buy your material as I appreciate the work you have done here.
Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
What an excellent tutorial! Great video, great analysis and great voiceover. Even I can learn a thing or two from your lesson. Thanks.
Thanks, Chris…glad it was helpful!
Brilliant! Such a simple way of explaining it. I have the basic grasp but this video shows exactly how it's applied in it's simplest,and most effective form. I have always known about the scales being a series of 1 to 3 and 1 to 4 patterns but this explains it so well. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Most logical explanation I have ever seen. If you just have a little background knowledge this really unlocks things for you. It did for me.
Thanks, Trey! 🎸🧪🤘
Thank you for such a good video. It is so much helpful.
This channel is very good. Bravo!
You have a very pleasant voice for this kind of video, like a professional book reader for audiobooks.
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@fretscience your approach to learning the fretboard is a huge help to me. I have played drums for 30 years so I knew nothing about the fretboard, and felt like I was wasting time sorting through all the fluff of most other videos. Thank you!
Glad you’re finding it helpful! 🎸🧪🤘
After one year of learning and trying to memorise different scales, this was really eye opening video. Thanks a lot! Now I begin to understand the movements also in horizontal direction.
Glad it was helpful!
Elegant explanation - thank you!
Thanks, Martin!
This video has well and truly changed my perception of understanding the guitar - thank you!
That’s great to hear…I love to see it when it “clicks”! 🎸🧪🤘
Very well presented. I'm going to take this on board, particularly the blues improv target notes. I've not quite looked at it this way before.
Nicely done. If I were just learning this now this would be a great introduction. It took me years to find resources that explained how the guitar really works. This presentation is very helpful.
Thanks, Kevin!
I had to rewind several sections quite a few times to make sure I was getting it but this is incredible. It's fairly easy to memorize that circle of 4th's pattern and seeing how shifting that pentatonic up goes to the fourth chord and down one goes to the fifth was eye opening. You also cleared up a confusion about 4ths and 5ths as it relates to semi tones. That's an important basic thing that should be taught and understood early on. Thanks for making this.
Thanks, Michael…much appreciated!
dido!
@huder67 you either missed letter 'l' or need 'tt' in place of the second 'd'. I bet on the latter. 😂
What a great explanation thanks a million will be there for more to come. Kudos
Glad it was helpful!
Greetings from Brazil. Best explanation ever
Glad it was helpful!
Very good teaching.
Thank you! 🎸🧪🤘
Gonna watch this a few times but it's golden. Wow
This is golden! Thanks a million!
Glad you found it useful! 🎸🧪🤘
Invaluable information here.
Thank you so much ! I recently had things start to click for me and I finally made it out of a guitar purgatory for the past decade… this is exactly what I needed.
That’s great to hear! 🎸🧪🤘
more more more please! this is eye opening to me, a beginner. Thanks!
PS, I went to your website. Great stuff! again, thanks so much.
The graphics are amazing. Thanks.
Glad you like them!
man, very killer video. excellent presentation. very much appreciated!
Thank you!
You're a master of clear explanation!!
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Much appreciated! 🎸🧪🤘
Great explanation!
Thanks!
Wow! Best info on this I’ve ever seen! I need to study it more but this was one of those aha moments that gets you to another level. Great explanation and perfect video! Thanks so much!
More to come soon…thanks!
Fantastic presentation 👍 Priceless knowledge. You win the internet . Subscribed 💪
Thanks, glad you liked it!
thanks for this lesson.
You’re most welcome!
This is amazing. Thank you so much for your work!
Glad you liked it! 🎸🧪🤘
Very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you very much for this fantastic insight! It has helped me a lot understanding the fretboard. Subscribed to your channel and website. Congratulations!
Much appreciated, thanks, Jose!
Great and succinct! Please do more. Just subscribed and looking forward to new videos!
Great video! Seeing the Penta shapes traverse the warp was kind of cool, I never visualised them that way before. I subbed just for that man! 🤙
Glad you liked it…welcome to the channel! 🎸🧪🤘
Extremely well presented! Looking forward to more videos thanks!
Thanks, Charles!
@@fretscience Your visuals are very clear and well thought out. However, what I like best is all the different ways of seeing/thinking about it you provide. I find things that click for me might not for others but this way I'm bound to find one that works for me.
OMG - Pentatonic shapes....Mind Blown!
Loving FS - awesome teacher
Much appreciated, thanks! 🎸🧪🤘
Enlightening explanation !!!!!!!! Thank you very much!!!
Glad it was helpful!
I’m so glad that this just popped up on my feed man
Glad you found it!
The target note sequence for a I-IV-V progression is an eye opener for me, thx !
I’m glad that resonated with you, thanks!
Yep. Every 10 years old classical musician knows it 😎 and all piano players.
Do - fa - sol - do
Its called Simple Kadenca.
@@goshu7009what does it have to do with explaining how this works on guitar, so you avoid tons of rote memorization and move on to the musical aspects of playing that much quicker? I think you missed the point completely. NB In English it is called 'cadence'
@@iggykarpov No, i am saying that study Music theory is very cool think and 3rd grade children knows thia things. This is part of the Music theory. Whats the problem?
@@goshu7009 Sorry, I probably misunderstood. 🤝
Watched this vid. Liked and subbed. I actually say down with my guitfiddle and applied this. Absolutely outstanding how it just popped. I understand what thirds and fourths and so on are, but I have never memorized any of the scales. Always just patterns. But for some reason this technique your teaching makes it easy to start recognizing individual notes and know where they are, and how they fit. WOW I don't feel like a lazy player anymore. Thank you very much.
Thanks, Bucky! So glad it helped!
Your unique contribution to guitar-ology is the term "warp," a quick way of referring to the effect of the reduced interval between the 3rd and 2nd strings. Thanks.
I can’t claim credit for the name, since I adapted it from the great Jon Finn, but I like to think that I’ve contributed by illustrating it with animations and showing additional ways to use it to reduce memorization beyond what Jon teaches in his books. Hopefully that makes it more accessible.
Terrific intellectual honesty, but totally expected from you, Keith!👍
Best music lesson ever, never seen it like that before. Already subsribed. Mil gracias!
Thanks, Denis! 🎸🧪🤘
Simply THE BEST video on YT
Thank you!
I came up with this on my own and you are the only person I have seen so far teach this way cudos
It gets even better (and more useful in a musicality sense) with the next couple of videos, so stick around 😉
I've watched hundreds of tutorials about scales and still not got it, I'm still a bit puzzled with this, but its by far an very helpful and interesting tute, thank you very much.
Feel free to ask questions here in the comments or shoot me an email at keith@fretscience.com. I’d love to help you get past whatever is blocking you (and I’m sure it would help others too). If you think a 1:1 video coaching session would help, that’s also an option
Ok. So this channel is going to blow up. Phenomenal content. Bravo!!
Thanks, Jesse!
What a clever fellow. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
@@fretscience i knew there was something like your system but couldnt quite put the pieces together...
Great video. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks!
damn man. teaching this stuff any other way should be illegal from now on. hands down best way of teaching fret board that i have ever seen in 20 years of my guitar playing. thank you so much for this on behalf of every guitar player.
I’m so glad it was helpful!
I'm with you! Let's petition the Congress to make it illegal.😂👍
The Circle of 5ths provides an endless number of insights into intervals. The more you play with it, the more you discover.
heyyy thats dope man. I do a similar thing to learn the modes of the major scale. didnt think to apply that thinking to the pentatonic and triads. subbed! cheers
Thanks! If you're interested in my take on how to apply this to the major scale modes, that's in this other video: th-cam.com/video/2IxiU96JQ7w/w-d-xo.html (I'll likely cover 3NPS in a separate video)
thats awesome, thanks!
Thanks, Miguel!
Not seen this anywhere else, subscribed thanks
Glad to have you here! My goal is to only make videos for topics where I have a different (and hopefully better) approach to offer than the old standbys. I hope you find that’s true of my other videos
@@fretscience Oh yes, I'm going to look at more. Thanks.
thank you so much!
Glad you liked it!
It's Brillant , many thanks
Our pleasure!