Learn to play guitar by ear with my full-length guitar course Listen & Play: andrewclarkeguitar.com/p/listen-play -- and if you want to download a PDF of all the flipped fretboard diagrams from this lesson, head over to my Patreon: www.patreon.com/AndrewClarke
You can tell when negative comments are left on great videos such as this that the negative typical spoiled behavior express some type of entitlement of how a video should be titled and taught. This lesson is either at your level of understanding below or above your understanding, this is one video that 40,000 different people have viewed, it’s not the absolute lesson for everyone but it’s a very informative lesson. This video is for the more serious and dedicated player , not the lick a minute picker who never develops the ability to make music and play songs and understand what they are doing. Be patient and learn it’s boring and irritating time consuming frustrating and aggravating, but commitment to learning is very rewarding! 🎸
Andrew, I have been learning guitar for fhe past 5-6 years through TH-cam exclusively. And I must confess your teaching methodology and lessons are the best there is to offer when it comes to understanding the mechanics of music on guitar. Many thanks to you and I hope you bring out more lessons for us. YouDaMan!
Andrew, you always manage to combine concepts and playing so effortlessly. The information you provide is succinct but not superficial. You have a knack for teaching this. Been following you for a while but became a Patreon because this lesson was just amazing. You make it look easy! If I had one critique, the documents provided for Patreons always have the thumbnail of the lesson on top of it which makes absolutely sense but I would prefer to have more printer friendly versions. I generally prefer to print things out and these things always cost more color which seems like a waste to be honest. Most scales are color-coded on the diagrams, so I still need to print it in color. Perhaps you could upload a printer friendly version in the future? Cheers from Luxembourg!
I really appreciate the kind words and support. That is a really great suggestion. I'm sure there are others like you. I'll see if I can find an easy way to make a more printer-friendly version for folks like yourself. Cheers!
Good stuff Andrew! This is very similar to something I've tried to do. Play a chord, then walk ascending or descending down the scale to the next chord tone of the next chord. It's especially challenging (and fun) to do this with 3rds as I need to know if the chord is minor or major, etc.
Not alot of kind,patient,helpful people like you in this world mate!! Dont stop doing what u do for people! You are such a amazing young man god bless u son! Kind regards from Scotland Aberdeen. If only u were my teacher. I love ur vids mate.
THANK YOU! I've considered myself a rhythm guitarist forever. I learned the I IV V long ago which I use as the base "formula" to figure out and play rhythm in pretty much all rock. I find it applicable to many other music types as well. The 1-4-5 has just made sense if you will, providing structure or a path to follow. I also know the pentatonic up and down the neck. But, trying to "logically" put them together has always seemed mechanical, cumbersome and clunky sounding. Your explanation on how to put notes in between and tie in the pentatonic was invaluable. Just noodle in-between cords (tease em) and when you feel it , jump into the lead (let em have it), wala there it is. It sort of speaks to me. Your examples remined me of how John Mayer plays off the cuff. Your videos have been extremely educational!
As a Rock Band whose guitarist has 10+ years of experience, we'd like to say that don't be afraid to try out chords that are not in the key. And always try to spice up the chords that already exist in the key.
Thank you for your videos. I have a bachelors degree in music but trumpet is my instrument. I don’t need theory or anything like that. I just need guidance on guitar. You really helped speed up my progress. Thanks!
This video (and, really, all of your videos like this) is great in part because it is bridging several related concepts in a way that helps players put the concepts together. And, of course, you present them so clearly and understandably (I think that is partly because you are just a very smart guy, and partly because you have spent some time thinking about how to present them clearly, and with just the right pace). I’ve been playing for decades, but I am only now realizing that I must learn some theory to continue to advance. Your videos are perfect for that. The one problem I have with this video is that, as you go through the different exercises, I find that when you change keys (e.g., from D major, to A major, etc.) to show us the next concept, it confuses me. I think it would be easier to follow if you just stayed in the same key, so that we could more easily see how all of the different concepts relate to each other, without having to re-orient ourselves to the new key (with new notes, and new scale degrees, etc.). But, all in all, I am getting a lot out of these great videos, I am learning a lot, and I have subscribed. Thanks for all you are doing! 😊
By far, learn more from Andrew. Even watching others... i learn because i can build on what Andrew teaches.. foundation is the key in building. All his lessons add value
Hi, Andrew, I like the way you use the E for the low E & the lower case e for the high e very easy for beginners, & others like me that never had that in TAB when I first started learning. JET🦇
I am intrigued by your 2 roadmaps, where the pentatonic scale lays within each roadmap, and the notes within the roadmaps that are suitable to use for soloing.. Good job! I knew the pattern in each roadmap for the I,IV , and V chord but did not know the rest of the roadmap or the bigger picture. Thank you. Craig Ewinger
Andrew, thanks for your help. Been playing for a while and enjoy your perspective. One change I would ask you to consider, your horizontal road map diagrams place the nut on the right. This is very counterintuitive for 99% of player. Please flip future diagrams to nut on the left.
I dont know how to say this without sounding weird but your skinny fingers make it so easy to see where youre playing and copy and learn from thank u so much dude❤
Another awesome lesson. I’ve been following your listen and play course! It’s helped me SO much. Video suggestion! Would love to see if you could make a technique video on applying things such as Hammer ons Pull offs Bends Etc. to scales and improve!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you're enjoying the course as well! I've got a video that covers some of that stuff you mentioned, but definitely something I need to do a more thorough lesson on. Here's that video: th-cam.com/video/-VoUGYfhhmE/w-d-xo.html
I have a question. Within some songs there is a jump to a higher key for effect and added interest which I think is called modulation. is there a formula or rule of thumb as to which key you would jump to when you modulate? For example, if I am playing a song in G what key would I modulate to? Craig Ewinger
Hello Craig the song Could just be playing say A major Scale and be played at the 5th fret and then the Guitarist switches up to play A major at the 12 fret it,s a higher Octave(pitch) As the Song progresses.
Excelent video fam! But the diagrams are quite confusing. It would be very helpful if it is rread left to right, I mean nut/lower notes on left and higher notes on right. Thanks!
Thanks! I get a lot of mixed feedback on the orientation of the fretboard diagrams, so thanks for weighing in. I choose to have the diagrams match my fretboard in my videos for a couple reasons. The first is because I don't want the graphic to be travelling in the opposite direction of the video, which I think can lead to more confusion. The other reason is that I'd rather you be looking at what I'm doing and using the graphics to support and clarify what you're seeing, rather than just staring at the diagrams and copying those. Being able to watch a guitar player and decipher what they're doing is a very important skill to develop, and you won't always have a fretboard diagram to help you. I do provide the flipped version of all the diagrams over on my Patreon in PDF form for those who want the best of both worlds. Thanks so much for watching! :)
Yeah having the diagram match your fretboard orientation in the video is definitely the right call. That way it’s easier to visualize what you’re doing and apply it instead of just relying on diagrams alone. I prefer it the way you have it in this video as opposed to the opposite way
Hey! At this time I just have the one course available here: andrewclarkeguitar.com/p/listen-play More to come later this year. I'm a one man show, so it takes some time for me to get these things out 😅
Great, I like your content, and just prefer something organized in a lesson to follow, so I look forward to more. I’ve done a few courses but always end up just realizing there’s too much to learn, and not enough practical advice.
@@andrewclarkeguitar It’s hard to say, which is probably kind of the problem. I definitely want to learn a lot of the stuff you have already shown on TH-cam about playing licks between chords and making my own music, the ear training stuff so I can get better at listening by ear , I can tell you this, I don’t wanna learn every single triad, and I don’t want to learn every single possible scale. This is where I find I often get frustrated because I’m left just sitting here memorizing every single thing with no application I think that learning bits and pieces of triads and a scale with a few cords that go with that in one lesson would be much better, which is kind of like what you do. I love the sound of having chords and licks. It’s so cool and that’s what I want to do in my free time when I’m not learning long David Gilmour solos haha
@@Baker5874 Haha, I like the way you think. I agree, that learning every single scale and every single tirad shape isn't the most practical way to be a more musical player. I have a lot more free and paid stuff on the way, so if you aren't finding exactly what you want yet, I'm sure I'll get to it. Cheers :)
So at 5:27 when you play g then a couple notes from scale then play Bm then couple notes then play D I am not understanding a formula if g.c.and d are the 1.4.5
At that point he's in D major not G major. If you look at the diagram you'll see that the I, IV and V are D, G and A. The progression he's playing is IV, vi, I as it happens. I'm not sure how relevant the chord choices are though, the point is that, as you say, he's just playing bass scale notes between chords.
It's new to me, yes! I've been looking for a Jazzmaster for quite some time and a used one came up at my local shop. My first guitar purchase since 2017! I'm very excited about it 😄
Most guitar channels set the guitar volume level way too loud relative to the dialog levels, this video is the opposite, the guitar levels are too loud relative to the levels of the dialog. Just a heads up.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm assuming that by your comment you mean that overall the guitar in the video is too quiet? I've listened on a few different sources at different volumes and it seems well-balanced to me. What are you listening through?
Addendum: at 14:50 ish, you start strumming and picking with a, wait for it, a pic, and your guitar level comes into a good balance with your dialog levels. One love.
I've gotten more than halfway though the video, but i haven't seen anything like what i would call "fills," which are the link between rhythm and lead. No, what you're teaching is how to play a "moving baseline." But, i would leave all that for the bass player. After all, when playing in a band, you want to stay out of each other's way! This is another mis-titled video. I really hate it when people mistitle their videos to get more views. It's like "click bait," and it sucks.
Looks like he was laying the foundation / road map on first two strings and starts to go vertical at the very end. He has a part two video "Use These Scales Between Your Chords - Connect Your Chords With Riffs & Licks (Part 2)" that might be what you are looking for.
Learn to play guitar by ear with my full-length guitar course Listen & Play: andrewclarkeguitar.com/p/listen-play -- and if you want to download a PDF of all the flipped fretboard diagrams from this lesson, head over to my Patreon: www.patreon.com/AndrewClarke
Can u make a composition video
You can tell when negative comments are left on great videos such as this that the negative typical spoiled behavior express some type of entitlement of how a video should be titled and taught. This lesson is either at your level of understanding below or above your understanding, this is one video that 40,000 different people have viewed, it’s not the absolute lesson for everyone but it’s a very informative lesson. This video is for the more serious and dedicated player , not the lick a minute picker who never develops the ability to make music and play songs and understand what they are doing. Be patient and learn it’s boring and irritating time consuming frustrating and aggravating, but commitment to learning is very rewarding! 🎸
Totally agree
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Andrew, I have been learning guitar for fhe past 5-6 years through TH-cam exclusively. And I must confess your teaching methodology and lessons are the best there is to offer when it comes to understanding the mechanics of music on guitar. Many thanks to you and I hope you bring out more lessons for us. YouDaMan!
I really appreciate that. I'm so happy I can help :) Lots more lessons to come!
I support this comment. And I have been on this journey for 13 years now :P
Andrew, you always manage to combine concepts and playing so effortlessly. The information you provide is succinct but not superficial. You have a knack for teaching this. Been following you for a while but became a Patreon because this lesson was just amazing. You make it look easy!
If I had one critique, the documents provided for Patreons always have the thumbnail of the lesson on top of it which makes absolutely sense but I would prefer to have more printer friendly versions. I generally prefer to print things out and these things always cost more color which seems like a waste to be honest. Most scales are color-coded on the diagrams, so I still need to print it in color. Perhaps you could upload a printer friendly version in the future?
Cheers from Luxembourg!
I really appreciate the kind words and support. That is a really great suggestion. I'm sure there are others like you. I'll see if I can find an easy way to make a more printer-friendly version for folks like yourself. Cheers!
Good stuff Andrew! This is very similar to something I've tried to do. Play a chord, then walk ascending or descending down the scale to the next chord tone of the next chord. It's especially challenging (and fun) to do this with 3rds as I need to know if the chord is minor or major, etc.
Nice! I like the idea of doing it with the 3rds too. Thanks for watching :)
Not alot of kind,patient,helpful people like you in this world mate!! Dont stop doing what u do for people! You are such a amazing young man god bless u son! Kind regards from Scotland Aberdeen. If only u were my teacher. I love ur vids mate.
Thank you so much! I'm glad I can help ☺
It feels easy when he explains ❤
Excellent material!!!! Thank you ❤
You're very welcome!
If I could learn to play guitar with only one channel on TH-cam. then its definitely Andrew Clark's channel 👌
This is my problem. I love all the videos! So good. Thank you for the lessons
Thank you for watching! ☺
THANK YOU! I've considered myself a rhythm guitarist forever. I learned the I IV V long ago which I use as the base "formula" to figure out and play rhythm in pretty much all rock. I find it applicable to many other music types as well. The 1-4-5 has just made sense if you will, providing structure or a path to follow. I also know the pentatonic up and down the neck. But, trying to "logically" put them together has always seemed mechanical, cumbersome and clunky sounding. Your explanation on how to put notes in between and tie in the pentatonic was invaluable. Just noodle in-between cords (tease em) and when you feel it , jump into the lead (let em have it), wala there it is. It sort of speaks to me. Your examples remined me of how John Mayer plays off the cuff. Your videos have been extremely educational!
As a Rock Band whose guitarist has 10+ years of experience, we'd like to say that don't be afraid to try out chords that are not in the key. And always try to spice up the chords that already exist in the key.
You just unlocked my brain 😭 awesome video
I'm glad it was helpful!
Great stuff. Very simple and easy to understand. This is why you’ve got to learn your scales and modes.
Thank you for your videos. I have a bachelors degree in music but trumpet is my instrument. I don’t need theory or anything like that. I just need guidance on guitar. You really helped speed up my progress. Thanks!
Nice! I'm glad I can help :)
You've got a great teaching skill.
Third video so far.
Subscribed
Thank you so much!
Thank you ❤️
You’re welcome 😊
One of the best guitar videos on TH-cam
Thank you for the easy to understand explanation and the big idea.
You're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful. :)
This video (and, really, all of your videos like this) is great in part because it is bridging several related concepts in a way that helps players put the concepts together. And, of course, you present them so clearly and understandably (I think that is partly because you are just a very smart guy, and partly because you have spent some time thinking about how to present them clearly, and with just the right pace). I’ve been playing for decades, but I am only now realizing that I must learn some theory to continue to advance. Your videos are perfect for that.
The one problem I have with this video is that, as you go through the different exercises, I find that when you change keys (e.g., from D major, to A major, etc.) to show us the next concept, it confuses me. I think it would be easier to follow if you just stayed in the same key, so that we could more easily see how all of the different concepts relate to each other, without having to re-orient ourselves to the new key (with new notes, and new scale degrees, etc.).
But, all in all, I am getting a lot out of these great videos, I am learning a lot, and I have subscribed.
Thanks for all you are doing! 😊
Thank you for this lesson!
You're very welcome! 😊
For a visual learner like myself this way of looking at note intervals within a scale works well
Thanks for another great video Andrew. I have learnt so much from your lessons over the last few months! Keep them coming :)
So great to hear that. Thank you so much for taking the time to watch :)
Thank You! Excellent lesson!
You're very welcome!
Awesome Video as always Thanks Andrew .
Glad you enjoyed it Thanks for watching :)
By far, learn more from Andrew. Even watching others... i learn because i can build on what Andrew teaches.. foundation is the key in building. All his lessons add value
Thank you so much! ☺🙏
Hi, Andrew, I like the way you use the E for the low E & the lower case e for the high e very easy for beginners, & others like me that never had that in TAB when I first started learning. JET🦇
I am intrigued by your 2 roadmaps, where the pentatonic scale lays within each roadmap, and the notes within the roadmaps that are suitable to use for soloing.. Good job! I knew the pattern in each roadmap for the I,IV , and V chord but did not know the rest of the roadmap or the bigger picture. Thank you. Craig Ewinger
Bro, you bless me with this. I'm definitely seeing things differently. Thank you for the lesson.
You're very welcome!
This is well done and an efficient use of time. Really nice job!
Great lesson!!!
Andrew, thanks for your help. Been playing for a while and enjoy your perspective. One change I would ask you to consider, your horizontal road map diagrams place the nut on the right. This is very counterintuitive for 99% of player. Please flip future diagrams to nut on the left.
Very helpful, thanks
You're welcome!
I dont know how to say this without sounding weird but your skinny fingers make it so easy to see where youre playing and copy and learn from thank u so much dude❤
Hahha, well I'm glad my skinny fingers make the videos better and not worse 😂 Thanks for watching! 🙏
Another awesome lesson. I’ve been following your listen and play course! It’s helped me SO much.
Video suggestion! Would love to see if
you could make a technique video on applying things such as
Hammer ons
Pull offs
Bends
Etc. to scales and improve!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you're enjoying the course as well! I've got a video that covers some of that stuff you mentioned, but definitely something I need to do a more thorough lesson on. Here's that video: th-cam.com/video/-VoUGYfhhmE/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for this video...Its spot on and exactly what i needed to extend my journey💥❤️❤️
Another fantastic lesson, thank you!
My pleasure!
Thankyou so much for this information!
Great stuff. Thank do much.👍
Thank you so much. Whoops!😅
My pleasure! 😄
Thank you
Thanks for watching :)
Added the minor penta nice
EXCELLENT ❤
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I have a question. Within some songs there is a jump to a higher key for effect and added interest which I think is called modulation. is there a formula or rule of thumb as to which key you would jump to when you modulate? For example, if I am playing a song in G what key would I modulate to? Craig Ewinger
Hello Craig the song Could just be playing say A major Scale and be played at the 5th fret and then the Guitarist switches up to play A major at the 12 fret it,s a higher Octave(pitch)
As the Song progresses.
Nice!
Glad you liked it!!
How do you know what chord shape to use. Do you have them all memorized?
1st to 10 min what is he abt
11th min this is magic!
Excelent video fam! But the diagrams are quite confusing. It would be very helpful if it is rread left to right, I mean nut/lower notes on left and higher notes on right. Thanks!
Thanks! I get a lot of mixed feedback on the orientation of the fretboard diagrams, so thanks for weighing in. I choose to have the diagrams match my fretboard in my videos for a couple reasons.
The first is because I don't want the graphic to be travelling in the opposite direction of the video, which I think can lead to more confusion. The other reason is that I'd rather you be looking at what I'm doing and using the graphics to support and clarify what you're seeing, rather than just staring at the diagrams and copying those.
Being able to watch a guitar player and decipher what they're doing is a very important skill to develop, and you won't always have a fretboard diagram to help you. I do provide the flipped version of all the diagrams over on my Patreon in PDF form for those who want the best of both worlds.
Thanks so much for watching! :)
Yeah having the diagram match your fretboard orientation in the video is definitely the right call. That way it’s easier to visualize what you’re doing and apply it instead of just relying on diagrams alone. I prefer it the way you have it in this video as opposed to the opposite way
Where are your lessons for purchase?
Hey! At this time I just have the one course available here: andrewclarkeguitar.com/p/listen-play
More to come later this year. I'm a one man show, so it takes some time for me to get these things out 😅
Great, I like your content, and just prefer something organized in a lesson to follow, so I look forward to more. I’ve done a few courses but always end up just realizing there’s too much to learn, and not enough practical advice.
@@Baker5874 that totally makes sense! What kind of stuff are you wanting to learn?
@@andrewclarkeguitar It’s hard to say, which is probably kind of the problem. I definitely want to learn a lot of the stuff you have already shown on TH-cam about playing licks between chords and making my own music, the ear training stuff so I can get better at listening by ear , I can tell you this, I don’t wanna learn every single triad, and I don’t want to learn every single possible scale. This is where I find I often get frustrated because I’m left just sitting here memorizing every single thing with no application I think that learning bits and pieces of triads and a scale with a few cords that go with that in one lesson would be much better, which is kind of like what you do. I love the sound of having chords and licks. It’s so cool and that’s what I want to do in my free time when I’m not learning long David Gilmour solos haha
@@Baker5874 Haha, I like the way you think. I agree, that learning every single scale and every single tirad shape isn't the most practical way to be a more musical player. I have a lot more free and paid stuff on the way, so if you aren't finding exactly what you want yet, I'm sure I'll get to it. Cheers :)
So at 5:27 when you play g then a couple notes from scale then play Bm then couple notes then play D I am not understanding a formula if g.c.and d are the 1.4.5
At that point he's in D major not G major. If you look at the diagram you'll see that the I, IV and V are D, G and A. The progression he's playing is IV, vi, I as it happens. I'm not sure how relevant the chord choices are though, the point is that, as you say, he's just playing bass scale notes between chords.
You rule. !!!
🙏❤
Is this a new Jazzmaster?
It's new to me, yes! I've been looking for a Jazzmaster for quite some time and a used one came up at my local shop. My first guitar purchase since 2017! I'm very excited about it 😄
This is cool to bad my teacher has not show me this lol he still amazing thow
The thumbnail is wrong. Am doesn't have C#. It should be C, the 3rd fret on the A string.
Good catch. I fixed it 😅
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Most guitar channels set the guitar volume level way too loud relative to the dialog levels, this video is the opposite, the guitar levels are too loud relative to the levels of the dialog. Just a heads up.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm assuming that by your comment you mean that overall the guitar in the video is too quiet? I've listened on a few different sources at different volumes and it seems well-balanced to me. What are you listening through?
Addendum: at 14:50 ish, you start strumming and picking with a, wait for it, a pic, and your guitar level comes into a good balance with your dialog levels. One love.
I've gotten more than halfway though the video, but i haven't seen anything like what i would call "fills," which are the link between rhythm and lead.
No, what you're teaching is how to play a "moving baseline."
But, i would leave all that for the bass player. After all, when playing in a band, you want to stay out of each other's way!
This is another mis-titled video. I really hate it when people mistitle their videos to get more views. It's like "click bait," and it sucks.
Looks like he was laying the foundation / road map on first two strings and starts to go vertical at the very end. He has a part two video "Use These Scales Between Your Chords - Connect Your Chords With Riffs & Licks (Part 2)" that might be what you are looking for.
True
No idea what your getting at 😫
too confusing