theres a point in guitar playing where you watch these videos and just get it. I've been playing for 5 years and have finally reached a point were i can digest these videos. im very grateful for you, thank you :)
For the truly aspiring guitarist this is the best tutorial site. No yampy presenter, just straight to the point clear concise info. Excellent illustration and inspiriing musical examples.
Been diving into guitar videos for the last few months to take my skills to the next level and finally ran into one of yours. Very understandable informative entertaining. TYVM. 18 years and this is what I needed. Subscribed.
As ever superb presentation of the subject, combining theory with musical ideas and applying the theory. I use sixths a lot, ever since my guitar teacher, many years ago, showed me them, and have used them as the basis for some self-penned songs. Thirds is another variation which yields some much musicality. Great lesson, thanks.
Hi fret jam. I found the whole lesson great and helpful but I came here to clearly understand what tones were involved in 6ths. In the vid you say we find the 6ths but playing up the Emaj scale but then you proceed to play up the Bmaj scale. What 6ths seem to be is the 5th and the 3rd intervals of a scale - which are separated by a 6th. The 3rd brings the maj/min quality and is - using this example - in the second octave. One way to play them would be to use a chord progression based on the chords of a scale. I.e I-ii-iii-IV-V-vi-VII*-I. Dig your lessons and format and all the time you dedicate. Thanks.
Thanks mate. I was in two minds about the approach to take for this lesson. I ended up just focusing on 6th shapes and how they relate to chord shapes because it leaves more room for exploration (e.g. mixing scales/modes). I did provide a brief example of playing through a scale using the example you referred to. In regards to where 6ths come from, I was playing the E major scale from B (it's 5th degree). You can essentially find a 6th interval on any degree of the scale. I just started there because it related to the open E major shape.
It sounds to me like Steve Cropper used a lot of 6th interval double stops in his guitar licks & solos. A couple of the examples in the video sound just like the intro to Soul Man and some of the other licks in the video are also very Cropper-like 👍
Though I don't know what's happening most of the time but I think your lessons are very professional and it just goes to show where I am in the realm of guitar theory. I'll catch up someday! :)
Thanks for this Lessons, I rely on your lessons it's the best for self taught musicians, it's like having a guitar teacher by your side. can you please make one for CAGED System. thanks
Why are you starting to count on the B Note of the E Maj Scale..???? PLEASE help me make some sense of that ! ---I LOVE your lessons and I REALLY want to UNDERSTAND why you do not start counting 6 up from the E (root)of the E Maj scale??? Looking forward to your answer THANK YOU !!!!!
You can count 6 up from any note in the scale to create a 6th. I started on the B note because I was referencing that particular shape between the 5th and 3rd strings. So it was all about the string pairing I was using over Emaj.
There's different scales or modes within a scale. There's different ways you can apply it.... I also remember Maj 6 as being a ( WH) b3 below the Octive. It's sort of like an INVERTED Minor chord. I HYBRID or FINGER pick..it's just easier to pick/pluck skipping strings. Im going chicken pick...fast..instead of picking the b3 or maj3 from the root...(DIFFERENT COOL SOUNDS) Plus it just good exercise for me to locate notes on the fretboard on the fly b6 is ( WW) maj3 below the octive You have to start somewhere..... but the b6 or maj6 is a distinct note... example....if I play E Major with b6...it's E Harmonic MAJOR If I play C# min with maj6 it's DORIAN If I play C# min Maj6, maj7...it's C# melodic minor Harmonic min = b6 melodic min = maj6 If I play C# melodic min b2.....or Harmonic min b2 The (N6) what's the ( N6) ??? I basically go to F# lydian dominant.....stack Maj3 BELOW the G The D note..I can make that D Maj7...... It's easier if I explain it in C MAJOR/ Amin The Bb maj7.... The D , F, A, D......D min chord is sort of ....... F 3, 6 If play the Bb note...it''s just Bb Maj7... im going to trick your ear..lmao Play Bb maj7....less the root D min F, 3, 6 C maj7 less the root E min G, 3, 6 F maj7 less the root Amin.. C, 3, 6 Other times I'll play the Root.....just different sounds or cadence.
So basically this lesson was talking about how a chord can be broken up into either 1> 6 interval ( perfect 6th) or a 1> b6 (flat 6)? Because I noticed he was obviously not starting on the root necessarily . I didn’t hear any clarification on this. Usually it’s made very clear what’s going on in the lesson or I missed something. It always trips me up when I am learning theory and a video numbers the fingers that are supposed to be used. It’s fine if it’s flashed on briefly but which fingers one would use is beside the point and should be more secondary rather than tertiary. You could hypothetically still do the interval even with a missing finger. It’s just that when you are trying to get the interval shapes down it just confuses things. Or when the teacher names the fret numbers it’s confusing as well. In my opinion the only time that fret numbers should be named in such a way is when you are teaching a straight up chord, be it a basic E chord, A chord or what have you.
Tip: don't have to mute the low E if you just start your strumming from the A string and that will improve your picking technique in general as it requires more accuracy, but less struggle in the left hand, as well as more accuracy on the notes you're pressing on the fretboard as you don't need to think so much about the note you play annnd the strings you're trying to mute.
You make a good point. I think attack has a lot to do with it. I just find it easier to mute the 6th string to keep a consistent motion and attack. But everyone is different.
By the way , I do enjoy your vids and learn a lot it’s just that a lot of the terms are not familiar to me ! Such as the sixth , to me means sixth tone of the scale !
Wow , i thought only me noticed that "two forms " looks strange. Then later i realized that "first form" is 6th maj for H and 6th min for C#. Its very confusing lesson.
I understand how to make music with these diads, but I don’t understand why all these positions are referred to as 6ths. Are we using major and minor 6ths? Help anyone?
fretjam hello I have been using the major and minor sixths according to diatonic scale, why does always seem it wants to resolve to the IV chord? Say if I start on g with a major 6th of E and move along diatonic scale , it seems to work harmonically to a C major? Thanks for all you do.
I thought 6th is the distance from root - 6th, then it would be E-C# for major sixth. what you have up there is B-G#. What you r playing there makes perfect sense, but iam abit confused. please help me understand.
if I were in the key of A major and wanted to do 6ths.. I would do A and C# and the 2nd of A bring Bm.. would it be the minor 6 of B to keep in the key of A major?
Hello friend! Very informative work! Just a heads up, in the beginning, you said you were going to play the E major scale but you played the B major scale and found the 1st and 6th in B major not E major. In E major, what you actually played would be the 5th and 3rd of the E major scale
Good trick. but, I'm really confused. Where is the 6th? If he is playing in the key of E maj he is playing a 5th and a minor or Maj 3rd (or 10th) isn't he? At the beginning he counts to the 6th using the B major scale...why is this? If someone can correct me I'd be v-grateful.
Thanks! Once I made that connection, everything made sense. Find root note, then play sixth and it sounds great. I like root as major, then minor 6th, minor 6th, back to major 6th.
So if we play in different shape of the chord we play the different notes?, but its okay because its still have that six notes distance between the note?, what?, my beginner brain couldnt understand this.
Yes this is just another name for playing these sixth forms. It's not strictly a scale in of itself (it's a harmonised interval), just to avoid any confusion.
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theres a point in guitar playing where you watch these videos and just get it. I've been playing for 5 years and have finally reached a point were i can digest these videos. im very grateful for you, thank you :)
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Been playing for 10 years now on my own and never got clearly some principles that you talk so clearly about. A gem of a channel.
Every time you put up a video, my knowledge increases. I'm still a rubbish guitar player as my fingers are not connected to my brain.
For the truly aspiring guitarist this is the best tutorial site. No yampy presenter, just straight to the point clear concise info. Excellent illustration and inspiriing musical examples.
Been diving into guitar videos for the last few months to take my skills to the next level and finally ran into one of yours.
Very understandable informative entertaining. TYVM. 18 years and this is what I needed. Subscribed.
Excellent graphics and must be incredibly time consuming! Thanks.
Your channel is pure gold! Thank you so much
I think 3rds offer the sweetest voicings
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Great lesson.
Saying the word "sixths" is far more difficult than playing them.
58% of the British population are unable to pronounce the word and have to resort to "sickth" . . . ;-O
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After 25+year playing you have finally helped me crack the 6th code at the drop of a hat 👏👏👏👍
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This is so cool! Completely opened up my sound for improvising
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Fantastic concept. Can we have a similar lesson in 3rds next please.
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Thank you very much for this. I just happened to start studying this in earnest today, and your explanation is really helpful.
As ever superb presentation of the subject, combining theory with musical ideas and applying the theory. I use sixths a lot, ever since my guitar teacher, many years ago, showed me them, and have used them as the basis for some self-penned songs. Thirds is another variation which yields some much musicality. Great lesson, thanks.
Great lesson. Thanks
Hi fret jam. I found the whole lesson great and helpful but I came here to clearly understand what tones were involved in 6ths. In the vid you say we find the 6ths but playing up the Emaj scale but then you proceed to play up the Bmaj scale. What 6ths seem to be is the 5th and the 3rd intervals of a scale - which are separated by a 6th. The 3rd brings the maj/min quality and is - using this example - in the second octave. One way to play them would be to use a chord progression based on the chords of a scale. I.e I-ii-iii-IV-V-vi-VII*-I. Dig your lessons and format and all the time you dedicate. Thanks.
Thanks mate. I was in two minds about the approach to take for this lesson. I ended up just focusing on 6th shapes and how they relate to chord shapes because it leaves more room for exploration (e.g. mixing scales/modes). I did provide a brief example of playing through a scale using the example you referred to.
In regards to where 6ths come from, I was playing the E major scale from B (it's 5th degree). You can essentially find a 6th interval on any degree of the scale. I just started there because it related to the open E major shape.
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Excellent lesson
It sounds to me like Steve Cropper used a lot of 6th interval double stops in his guitar licks & solos.
A couple of the examples in the video sound just like the intro to Soul Man and some of the other licks in the video are also very Cropper-like 👍
Man I always learn something useful on this page. It starts to open up the bigger picture and playing become a touch less mysterious! Cheers!
Though I don't know what's happening most of the time but I think your lessons are very professional and it just goes to show where I am in the realm of guitar theory. I'll catch up someday! :)
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Thanks for this Lessons, I rely on your lessons it's the best for self taught musicians, it's like having a guitar teacher by your side. can you please make one for CAGED System. thanks
Fret jam , thanks for clearing that up !
Incredible and useful as always. Thank you so much!
This technique is used in " Slow dancing in a burning room " of john mayer. In the intro
Used quite a lot in music Bon Jovi use this to effect in their intro to Dead or alive
Great example
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6th interval from the Ionian mode for the first fingering, 6th interval from the Locrian mode for the second fingering.
Excellent lesson!
Excellent intel!
Great video. Please do one on tenths.
6ths add beautiful color to voicings. It reminds me of more "world" or ethnic styles.
Why are you starting to count on the B Note of the E Maj Scale..???? PLEASE help me make some sense of that ! ---I LOVE your lessons and I REALLY want to UNDERSTAND why you do not start
counting 6 up from the E (root)of the E Maj scale??? Looking forward to your answer
THANK YOU !!!!!
You can count 6 up from any note in the scale to create a 6th. I started on the B note because I was referencing that particular shape between the 5th and 3rd strings. So it was all about the string pairing I was using over Emaj.
There's different scales or modes within a scale.
There's different ways you can apply it....
I also remember Maj 6 as being a ( WH) b3 below the Octive.
It's sort of like an INVERTED Minor chord.
I HYBRID or FINGER pick..it's just easier to pick/pluck skipping strings.
Im going chicken pick...fast..instead of picking the b3 or maj3
from the root...(DIFFERENT COOL SOUNDS)
Plus it just good exercise for me to locate notes on the fretboard
on the fly b6 is ( WW) maj3 below the octive
You have to start somewhere.....
but the b6 or maj6 is a distinct note...
example....if I play E Major with b6...it's E Harmonic MAJOR
If I play C# min with maj6 it's DORIAN
If I play C# min Maj6, maj7...it's C# melodic minor
Harmonic min = b6
melodic min = maj6
If I play C# melodic min b2.....or Harmonic min b2 The (N6)
what's the ( N6) ???
I basically go to F# lydian dominant.....stack Maj3 BELOW the G
The D note..I can make that D Maj7......
It's easier if I explain it in C MAJOR/ Amin
The Bb maj7....
The D , F, A, D......D min chord is sort of ....... F 3, 6
If play the Bb note...it''s just Bb Maj7...
im going to trick your ear..lmao
Play Bb maj7....less the root D min F, 3, 6
C maj7 less the root E min G, 3, 6
F maj7 less the root Amin.. C, 3, 6
Other times I'll play the Root.....just different sounds or cadence.
@@fretjamguitarthen it's a B6, isn't it? Because if it is a B6 I understood everything, if not I understood nothing. Thanks in advance
Walter Weimer yes, long story short, it is B6.
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So basically this lesson was talking about how a chord can be broken up into either 1> 6 interval ( perfect 6th) or a 1> b6 (flat 6)? Because I noticed he was obviously not starting on the root necessarily . I didn’t hear any clarification on this. Usually it’s made very clear what’s going on in the lesson or I missed something. It always trips me up when I am learning theory and a video numbers the fingers that are supposed to be used. It’s fine if it’s flashed on briefly but which fingers one would use is beside the point and should be more secondary rather than tertiary. You could hypothetically still do the interval even with a missing finger. It’s just that when you are trying to get the interval shapes down it just confuses things. Or when the teacher names the fret numbers it’s confusing as well. In my opinion the only time that fret numbers should be named in such a way is when you are teaching a straight up chord, be it a basic E chord, A chord or what have you.
Tertiary? I think you meant primary lol
Tip: don't have to mute the low E if you just start your strumming from the A string and that will improve your picking technique in general as it requires more accuracy, but less struggle in the left hand, as well as more accuracy on the notes you're pressing on the fretboard as you don't need to think so much about the note you play annnd the strings you're trying to mute.
You make a good point. I think attack has a lot to do with it. I just find it easier to mute the 6th string to keep a consistent motion and attack. But everyone is different.
Thank u for explaining so simply. Are major and minor intervals to be with the the major and minor chords ?
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Thanks, would you reference the note combinations according to the key that the song is in??
Thanks bro
Thought you might have mentioned, a 6th is also an interval of a third (could be confusing, I guess)
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By the way , I do enjoy your vids and learn a lot it’s just that a lot of the terms are not familiar to me ! Such as the sixth , to me means sixth tone of the scale !
A sixth is just an interval. So it occurs between any 6 scale degrees.
so are you thinking about the chords the sixth is part if whe youre playing, or are you just winging it and seeing how it sounds?
since all i care about recently is playing lightnin hopkins songs, i dont use a flat pick but a thumbpick or no pick at all
Is the second form a root + minor 6th?
EDIT: I think I misunderstood. The two forms here are the 5th + 3rd and the 5th + 4th.
Wow , i thought only me noticed that "two forms " looks strange. Then later i realized that "first form" is 6th maj for H and 6th min for C#. Its very confusing lesson.
Is this Rabea Masaad voice??
When going up or down on the neck do you use the wwh wwwh steps?
The PUMPKIN chord!
I understand how to make music with these diads, but I don’t understand why all these positions are referred to as 6ths. Are we using major and minor 6ths? Help anyone?
Yes, major and minor 6ths
fretjam hello
I have been using the major and minor sixths according to diatonic scale, why does always seem it wants to resolve to the IV chord? Say if I start on g with a major 6th of E and move along diatonic scale , it seems to work harmonically to a C major? Thanks for all you do.
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I thought 6th is the distance from root - 6th, then it would be E-C# for major sixth. what you have up there is B-G#. What you r playing there makes perfect sense, but iam abit confused. please help me understand.
6th only means difference between scale degrees: These particular sixths are from 5th to 3rd: 5-6-7-1-2-3 = 6 notes
if I were in the key of A major and wanted to do 6ths.. I would do A and C# and the 2nd of A bring Bm.. would it be the minor 6 of B to keep in the key of A major?
Hello friend! Very informative work! Just a heads up, in the beginning, you said you were going to play the E major scale but you played the B major scale and found the 1st and 6th in B major not E major. In E major, what you actually played would be the 5th and 3rd of the E major scale
helpful tnx
Around 4:24, I am bit confuse
are you moving the fret with the form experimentally or are you moving it based on the E major scale?
Experimentally. I gave an example of the E major scale just before that.
@@fretjamguitar Thanks
I just realized it has something to do with modes
Isn't wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi, the classic intro a group of 6's from the key of D? Or a mixture of major and minor 6's? Thanks great vid!
Yep. Good ears!
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thumbs up if you rmiddle finger touches the G string
What 6ths means?, is that 6th interval of the root or what?
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4:35 my amateur brain can't comprehend what's going on here
Just playing between those two forms (top 2 diagrams) along the neck.
Update: I've gotten into jazz lmao
Why is the 2nd form is a 6th interval?
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Awesome video I
wish you’d have put the scale positions as numbers with the fretboard positions as well
Good trick. but, I'm really confused. Where is the 6th?
If he is playing in the key of E maj he is playing a 5th and a minor or Maj 3rd (or 10th) isn't he?
At the beginning he counts to the 6th using the B major scale...why is this?
If someone can correct me I'd be v-grateful.
Someone please tell me if i'm being dumb! This is annoying the hell out of me.
First position is for my 6ths, second position is for minor 6ths?
First is major 6th. Second is minor 6th. Both are 6ths.
Thanks! Once I made that connection, everything made sense. Find root note, then play sixth and it sounds great. I like root as major, then minor 6th, minor 6th, back to major 6th.
So if we play in different shape of the chord we play the different notes?, but its okay because its still have that six notes distance between the note?, what?, my beginner brain couldnt understand this.
Exactly, it's about the interval/distance between the two notes, no matter where they are played.
I’m confused, I’m the beginning you said you were using the E scale but your playing in the B scale
The E scale from B
@@fretjamguitar but in 2:46 how is it become the 2nd form?
the guitar forms on top look like a zero fret guitar..
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Evidently it means the sixth tone relative to whatever tone you start on in a given scale ?
Correct. We either get a major 6th or minor 6th interval.
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Are these the so called Memphis notes or the Memphis scale, the same ones used in the Brown Eyed Girl song?
Yes this is just another name for playing these sixth forms. It's not strictly a scale in of itself (it's a harmonised interval), just to avoid any confusion.
but i guess brown eyed girl are just 5s
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Is the second form not a minor sixth
Yes first is major 6th, second minor 6th.