This has got to be the best instructional guitar video I've ever seen! First of all, I've never seen anybody explain the concept of playing through changes in such a simplified, practical way. So thank you for that! But second, I've never before experienced the joy of playing through changes and spitting my coffee at the same time, so thank you for that too (I think). This is truly great shit, cheers!
This is the hardest part for a rocker/metalhead/indieguy (or girl) or whatever modal style musician who got used to play from one scale only per song to get to the point of being able to convert their playing into 'reacting on - an connecting chords' what jazzmusic requires. My head knew immediately what it should be and what I should do, but that same head never thought of starting with it a whole lot slower with quarter or eight notes to get used to it and get into it, like suggested in this video, excellent, thanks a lot!
Killer Video as always. Why is it that most Instructors cannot convey a concept this way. Yes, this will take practice to fully get to playing this comfortably but moving though this video was easy to get. Thank you Dani.
Thank you! I love this. This method allows me to see a path to fluency in making the changes instead of a huge wall to just slam into over and over, feeling inadequate to the task. I appreciate the way you presented this very much. This is very doable! Thanks again!
Loved the part with voice-leading using just quarter notes, it is the same concept that is presented in Building Walking Bass Lines (by Ed Friedland) and it is such a simple yet very powerful and effective framework.
That's exactly right. Some changes are much harder than others, and those are the ones we need to work on. The I-real player is great for that. I also like to study the baselines because base players are great at leading one chord to another in a simple but beautiful way. Moreover, these baselines contain the essential notes along with the voice leading to get to them. And, because the baselines are usually more sparse, they can be adapted for soloing on tempos that are beyond our technique.
"Cantaloupe Island" by Herbie Hancock provides a good example of this, as the "solo" vamp moves between two chords built from scales sharing at least 4 notes, along with an appropriate island theme, for an island hopping workout, methinks. Nice idea!
Just found this channel. Loved all the vids I've seen so far. Some unique and valuable approaches. And great production (and facial expressions - very helpful)!
After 15 years learning technique and covering solos I started learning about actual scales, intervals, harmony and my ultimate goal is to play over changes and this is a really wonderful explanation on how could I eventually approach it. Too bad I'm still stuck on 1 chord. How to actually practice to learn and play a scale over a 1 chord without much thinking like you are doing is my immediate goal. I wish you could make some videos about that as well, cause when i play scales sounds so robotic, always fishing for the root like you said, etc. And also, how on earth you learn all these scales? Do you go over the scales and arpeggios and chords for each one? you choose a particular key or practice over multiple keys?
The half note concept for ppracticing kinda reminds me of walking basslines, having to think of the next target note thats closest to your current note
I just wanted to say, that made a lot of sense. Thanks for the advanced baby steps, now all a sudden the idea of learning some new scales is more exciting, and also makes me feel good to at least know what I know. Normal modes mostly. Thanks man 🤙 that was inspiring, and although I joke with a friend about the "dreaded 2 chord jams" now I can hardly wait 😂
Sir, your lessons are so good. Wish you all the possible good things and golden guitars and dollars, for sharing such wisdom with bestest clarity for poor idiots like me.
Great stuff, thank you! Would love a bit more explanation of playing across/past the chord change (extending a phrase "through" the bar where the chord change happens). Also, does voice leading mean you're always trying to land on the 1st, 3rd or 7th of the new chord?
It feels like in chord changes you change to an entirely new root and mode set, so if one wanted to make a very complicated chord progression they could strategically make every chord outside of the last chords mode set, and even have each of those chords be a different mode, as long as the composer knows exactly what scale each chord needs you can still use whats taught in this video even if its so far out of diatonic chord progressions it sounds broken and random. Such as a Black metal chord progression using all minor chords and ignoring diatonic theory for the most part, then treating each chord individually as a brand new root. Cool concept and I found I was using this somewhat with some southern rock that moved between the root and it's flat 7th, instead treating that flat 7 as a new ionian root and just shifting, its probably wrong and lazy but so am I and that why i never went to university.
It’s sub V of I Minor which always gets Lydian dominant. If you play mixolydian they sound unrelated, if you play Lydian dominant they get tied together in a cadence
Hi Danny ! If I play scale by scale it's approximatively OK. (I'm still working on arpegios and scales to be 100% correct). But when I try to change from one to another by one random note (the closer one by example) i'm lost... I think perhap's it's because I only think thru intervals insteed of thinking by notes..? I'm a little bit affraid to learn every notes of each system / mode / arpegio, or at minimum the flats & sharps of . Is it really the thing to do ? Or there is another way ?
@@marbinmusicI will enjoy for sure lessons with U. I can't imagine it ! So talented, so multi-skilled, so fun... but, I'm over 8000Km from Chicago, and I have just enough money to pay my bills (caus'I spent too much time to practice and learn guitar instead of sell my own skills ;-) that's why I'm learning by free content that is available online. Thanks so much for that ! I wish you may have a lot of fortunated local students to support U, like that U can continue to dispend free essentials video courses for the poor rest of the world ;-) For the moment, I've spent 1h to elaborate an attack plan : I remember "all come from major scale", and you tell it : "dorian come from 2d degree of ..." so by the way I will try to learn first 12 tonalitys, that what I avoid until this moment, because of guitar intervals are easier to acquire... It seem's like to climb a moutain ! But it seem's I hav'nt choice too : I want to improvise, I have to climb the mountain ! Thanks for motivation ! And remember me : if you want to come in europe, I can find gigs, acomodate master classes & jams for U in south east of France and you're really welcome in this beautiful region. Thanks again for all. Have a great time. Sincerly.
im sorry if its a stupid question, but how do you visualize the changing scales if you dont use roots to anchor visualization? btw just found your channel and its amazing
@@TinyBolts1 thanks bro. It’s not a stupid question. Play a C cowboy chord. Then sing the bass note C. Now play it again but lift your ring finger off of the fret board and sing the note C. Now do it again but instead of singing C imagine the note C. What you are doing is relating a sound to another sound. It’s the same idea applied to scales. You can’t be the prisoner of a visual starting point
@@marbinmusic i dont mean playing from the root, but visualizing a scale from the nearest root when the change happens, and continuing on the same trajectory. obviously its a bad way to get used to doing things for the long term, but i dont quite understand how a noob can begin learning to utilize certain modes over chords if not by visualization akin to this.
@@marbinmusic you said in a video that a pro player sees nothing when they play. a noob cannot improvise freely over changes. then what is a noob supposed to see to even begin playing? i cant get an answer to this question anywhere. can you remember the very first time you successfully played a jazz standard following the changes?
Reckon you could vamp over a 2-5-1-6 doing this? Just for my own personal satisfaction. Thanks so much for the great vids with so much knowledge in a friendly and funny format
This is exactly what is the bottle neck of my guitar playing. Chord voicings and rhythm are all practicable on our own but playing over chord changes requires some special intellectual labour in my opinion.
How the fucketty-fuckadoodle-doo has this channel only got 25k subs? Thanks for the constantly top notch uploads.
It's cause you're not sending it to all your friends and family and tell them to sub or you will never talk to them again. Let's gooooo!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉😢🎉🎉😢🎉
@@dannymarkovitchslor626 on to it 🫡👍
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They've only recently had a focus on making this kind of content. You're on the ground floor, brother. Cheers.
The content is superb but the effects are next-level off-putting.
This has got to be the best instructional guitar video I've ever seen! First of all, I've never seen anybody explain the concept of playing through changes in such a simplified, practical way. So thank you for that! But second, I've never before experienced the joy of playing through changes and spitting my coffee at the same time, so thank you for that too (I think). This is truly great shit, cheers!
I found it annoying AF
You belong on our Patreon bro! If you like this sort of instruction our Patreon is packed with it!
Sometimes you just meet that one person that makes it all make sense🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
This is the hardest part for a rocker/metalhead/indieguy (or girl) or whatever modal style musician who got used to play from one scale only per song to get to the point of being able to convert their playing into 'reacting on - an connecting chords' what jazzmusic requires. My head knew immediately what it should be and what I should do, but that same head never thought of starting with it a whole lot slower with quarter or eight notes to get used to it and get into it, like suggested in this video, excellent, thanks a lot!
You belong on our Patreon! Lots more there with tabs
Killer Video as always. Why is it that most Instructors cannot convey a concept this way. Yes, this will take practice to fully get to playing this comfortably but moving though this video was easy to get. Thank you Dani.
Thank you! I love this. This method allows me to see a path to fluency in making the changes instead of a huge wall to just slam into over and over, feeling inadequate to the task. I appreciate the way you presented this very much. This is very doable! Thanks again!
Virtuosity, instructional, comedy ..... fantastic.
You belong on our Patreon!
Loved the part with voice-leading using just quarter notes, it is the same concept that is presented in Building Walking Bass Lines (by Ed Friedland) and it is such a simple yet very powerful and effective framework.
Man this is genius music pedagogy !!! Thank you so much
I really really appreciate your educational output. Thank you
20:14 How to practice - Different subdivisions
That's exactly right. Some changes are much harder than others, and those are the ones we need to work on. The I-real player is great for that. I also like to study the baselines because base players are great at leading one chord to another in a simple but beautiful way. Moreover, these baselines contain the essential notes along with the voice leading to get to them. And, because the baselines are usually more sparse, they can be adapted for soloing on tempos that are beyond our technique.
"Cantaloupe Island" by Herbie Hancock provides a good example of this, as the "solo" vamp moves between two chords built from scales sharing at least 4 notes, along with an appropriate island theme, for an island hopping workout, methinks. Nice idea!
Just found this channel. Loved all the vids I've seen so far. Some unique and valuable approaches. And great production (and facial expressions - very helpful)!
Welcome aboard!
Where the hell was this lesson when I went to school?!? Thanks for another great video!
Priceless so much in here and strangely soothing almost hypnotic many thanks
After 15 years learning technique and covering solos I started learning about actual scales, intervals, harmony and my ultimate goal is to play over changes and this is a really wonderful explanation on how could I eventually approach it. Too bad I'm still stuck on 1 chord. How to actually practice to learn and play a scale over a 1 chord without much thinking like you are doing is my immediate goal. I wish you could make some videos about that as well, cause when i play scales sounds so robotic, always fishing for the root like you said, etc. And also, how on earth you learn all these scales? Do you go over the scales and arpeggios and chords for each one? you choose a particular key or practice over multiple keys?
The half note concept for ppracticing kinda reminds me of walking basslines, having to think of the next target note thats closest to your current note
You are hilarious Danny.. and such a great teacher. Love it!
You rock!
20:05 did a spit take, “Basketball”… Nick is killing it!
I just wanted to say, that made a lot of sense. Thanks for the advanced baby steps, now all a sudden the idea of learning some new scales is more exciting, and also makes me feel good to at least know what I know. Normal modes mostly.
Thanks man 🤙 that was inspiring, and although I joke with a friend about the "dreaded 2 chord jams" now I can hardly wait 😂
Excellent video.
Sir, your lessons are so good. Wish you all the possible good things and golden guitars and dollars, for sharing such wisdom with bestest clarity for poor idiots like me.
Great stuff, thank you! Would love a bit more explanation of playing across/past the chord change (extending a phrase "through" the bar where the chord change happens). Also, does voice leading mean you're always trying to land on the 1st, 3rd or 7th of the new chord?
Informative and amazingly entertaining!
You should consider joining the Patreon! Lots more in this kind of stuff
Another great tutorial - I didn't expect anything less from you Dani:) BTW, what's up with Marbin's real talk podcast? Any new episodes coming up?
Thank You...❤
Thanks for posting that pretty helpful.
It feels like in chord changes you change to an entirely new root and mode set, so if one wanted to make a very complicated chord progression they could strategically make every chord outside of the last chords mode set, and even have each of those chords be a different mode, as long as the composer knows exactly what scale each chord needs you can still use whats taught in this video even if its so far out of diatonic chord progressions it sounds broken and random. Such as a Black metal chord progression using all minor chords and ignoring diatonic theory for the most part, then treating each chord individually as a brand new root. Cool concept and I found I was using this somewhat with some southern rock that moved between the root and it's flat 7th, instead treating that flat 7 as a new ionian root and just shifting, its probably wrong and lazy but so am I and that why i never went to university.
You always make so much sense 👍🏻
Check out the Patreon! Even more stuff just like this
Not to me. Not to me. Oh well...
Man thanks for this! You are an excellent teacher. You make it look easy but it is definitely not.
Best guitar teacher on youtube, thanks! By the way, how do you make your loops with drums like the one in the video?
Superior drummer 3
@marbinmusic thanks. And are you using a loop pedal too? Which one?
@@ItsCameron9 I am not.
With a brush drum track masking and the comping chords so muted you could play almost anything on a 335 and it will sound like smooth jazz.
15:00 why is Ab7 lydian dominant and not just myxolydian? Or is that just an artistic choice? You make it seem like it’s a rule in that instance?
It’s sub V of I Minor which always gets Lydian dominant. If you play mixolydian they sound unrelated, if you play Lydian dominant they get tied together in a cadence
@@marbinmusic thanks!
Very concise. Cool!!
Your vids have been super helpful!!!!
Glad you like them!
It's so crazy I just started doing this same thing going from E major to e minor using the harmonic major scale!
6:06 my favorite island
Hi Danny ! If I play scale by scale it's approximatively OK. (I'm still working on arpegios and scales to be 100% correct). But when I try to change from one to another by one random note (the closer one by example) i'm lost... I think perhap's it's because I only think thru intervals insteed of thinking by notes..? I'm a little bit affraid to learn every notes of each system / mode / arpegio, or at minimum the flats & sharps of . Is it really the thing to do ? Or there is another way ?
@@JeanKrst it’s definitely the way. Consider private lessons to locate and solve the problem.
@@marbinmusicI will enjoy for sure lessons with U. I can't imagine it ! So talented, so multi-skilled, so fun... but, I'm over 8000Km from Chicago, and I have just enough money to pay my bills (caus'I spent too much time to practice and learn guitar instead of sell my own skills ;-) that's why I'm learning by free content that is available online. Thanks so much for that ! I wish you may have a lot of fortunated local students to support U, like that U can continue to dispend free essentials video courses for the poor rest of the world ;-) For the moment, I've spent 1h to elaborate an attack plan : I remember "all come from major scale", and you tell it : "dorian come from 2d degree of ..." so by the way I will try to learn first 12 tonalitys, that what I avoid until this moment, because of guitar intervals are easier to acquire... It seem's like to climb a moutain ! But it seem's I hav'nt choice too : I want to improvise, I have to climb the mountain ! Thanks for motivation ! And remember me : if you want to come in europe, I can find gigs, acomodate master classes & jams for U in south east of France and you're really welcome in this beautiful region. Thanks again for all. Have a great time. Sincerly.
3:14 Islands
Yo why the fuck doesn’t this man have more subs??? This is seriously great lessons and it’s funny.
Asking myself the same thing
im sorry if its a stupid question, but how do you visualize the changing scales if you dont use roots to anchor visualization? btw just found your channel and its amazing
@@TinyBolts1 thanks bro. It’s not a stupid question. Play a C cowboy chord. Then sing the bass note C. Now play it again but lift your ring finger off of the fret board and sing the note C. Now do it again but instead of singing C imagine the note C.
What you are doing is relating a sound to another sound.
It’s the same idea applied to scales.
You can’t be the prisoner of a visual starting point
@@marbinmusic i dont mean playing from the root, but visualizing a scale from the nearest root when the change happens, and continuing on the same trajectory. obviously its a bad way to get used to doing things for the long term, but i dont quite understand how a noob can begin learning to utilize certain modes over chords if not by visualization akin to this.
@@marbinmusic you said in a video that a pro player sees nothing when they play. a noob cannot improvise freely over changes. then what is a noob supposed to see to even begin playing? i cant get an answer to this question anywhere. can you remember the very first time you successfully played a jazz standard following the changes?
655 likes 0 dislikes this is how you know this man speaks the truth
agree. great lesson... btw, you know the dislikes can no longer be seen?
@@MightyTastyGuitar i have a plugin that can see dislikes, this seriously has 0 of them
@@paisano0 forgot about that plugin... 0 is appropriate but rare in these parts. restores hope in humanity a little bit.
@@MightyTastyGuitar it's 15 v. 1063 likes now fuck em
3:55 start
The tabs for c mixo are incorrect at like 1:50
0:14 props for impossible haha! Are you skating or was before?
Reckon you could vamp over a 2-5-1-6 doing this? Just for my own personal satisfaction. Thanks so much for the great vids with so much knowledge in a friendly and funny format
You could
Brilliant
This is exactly what is the bottle neck of my guitar playing.
Chord voicings and rhythm are all practicable on our own but playing over chord changes requires some special intellectual labour in my opinion.
You guys touring this summer?
A little. WI, MI, OH
Hillarious ! (wrong note is a half step away from the right one ...). Hah, hah, hah !
2:20 No fishing 🎣
1:10 The changes 😎
This lesson should come with a seizure warning. I threw up twice.
Yeah I shat my drawers
Great!
Also great stuff
Should i make the face on the changes 😮😊😊😂😮😊😊😂😮😊😊😂😮
Joking aside the faces work perfectly thank you for great lesson Dani.
5:00 Improvising
Great lesson.. but how does one systematically practice this ,. So many scales and so many positions ,… overwhelming… I’ve
Choose a song start with the first two chords then the second and third
14:43 The next thing: major to harmonic minor
10:40 So what?
dude why you gotta visit that blue and white island
Came for the lesson, stayed for the happy ":D" every time he nailed a change.
But stay away from Little St James Island, brother! 😂
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Little St. James!? Lol 😂
ごめん。おもしろい！ 超笑ってしまった！ You are the best...!
i'm pretty sure you used a photo from Epstein Island 😂 anyway thnx for the great advice
Oh it was intentional, he’s got Epstein on a boat a little later in the video :D
That a plane, rich pedophiles prefer private jets to hop between islands…
Lol OK subbing
jajajaja I fucking love your vids
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Practice using only R 3 5 7 arpeggio of whatever chord you are on for one year. There are 24 ways to play 1 3 5 7, get to work
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Great ... if you like the sound of scales. I prefer melody. I keep track of chord tones. Melody loves chord tones.
It really depends on the style. In any jazz context (swing, bop, etc) it would sound very strange to focus on chord tones.
@@dannymarkovitchslor626you hearing yourself???
Dude the Epstein on a rocket ship slayed me 🤣
Me am too schtoopy...😵💫😶🌫
Just use C chromatic for everything lol
Lemme know how that goes