@@SignalsMusicStudio useful is an understatement, it is incredible how much important and crucial information you can convey so effectively within the span of a video, i have been a casual player for years and never paid attention to any theory, looking at some of your videos past week enriched me more than my past 10 years of goofing around
I've been playing guitar for 20ish years (self taught, and have read a lot of books on music theory). I have to say your videos are amazingly helpful!!! I've learned things on from watching your videos that I wish I would've known for the last 20 years. Great explanations! Awesome job!
Isn't this technically relatively close to basic music theory? Change "C D E" to "Do Re Mi" and/or "1 2 3," etc., and you've got the keys to unlock playing any song in any key, and not just on the guitar! After I took just two semesters of college-level music theory, I decided that information out to be more available at the Secondary school level, or even elementary. Learning scale degrees is so useful on the guitar, I started applying it to the piano and other instruments. Let's say you learned all your scales by scale degrees instead of by note names. If someone gave you a song in scale degrees instead of note names, or even Do Re Mi, you could theoretically play the song in any key with very little trouble, and NO tedious note-by-note transposing!
You sir are now my guitar teacher. I've never had one before because I dislike people so. But you, you're not obnoxious or pretending to be that which you are not. I didn't like you so very much when I'd first started watching because as I had mentioned previously, I don't like people, but you sir are very generous with your knowledge and convey it in such a way we layman's can understand. 🤘 🧐
One of the best lessons on TH-cam ... I ve been looking for this for so many days, finally I got it ... I feel like I m a guitarist now .. I like the way you teach its very helpful. Thank you so much. Keep uploading more videos Sir!
Not talking down on other guitar channels on youtube, however you simply have a way of delivering in depth information that just allows my brain to soak up this knowledge insanely quick. I have learned so much in the month I have known about your channel. Cheers! Hope to see you at NAMM someday (whenever we are allowed to do those things again)
Great video! One important thing that you forgot to mention is that all 12 major scales have the same pattern of notes. This makes scale degrees incredibly useful because you can talk about concepts in any key by using the same terminology. For example, the “flat 3rd” is always three half-steps above the root, no matter which root note you’re using. Thanks, Jake!
The difficulty here for players will be if you don't know your notes on the fretboard and can quickly distinguish the E-F and B-C intervals as it does depend on the starting degree or note as well which determines the placement...but this video teaches it way better than when I learned years years ago
Subscribed! Three minutes in, I've already learned an amazing concept that I didn't know I needed so badly since I started playing music in middle school. Thanks for making this.
‘Kinda...’ Yep. The missing piece here is some explanation of how any note in the same piece of music might be given a different degree when musicians communicate. When talking about chord structures musicians use the major scale that shares the same root as the chord as the reference (1 or root) for the degrees (notes) in the chord. But any note in the chord will be a different degree in the key the music is written in (unless the chord being discussed is the tonic I guess). Then we have the chord degrees in functional harmonies which use the same set of numbers (+ qualifiers) for chords. One of the reasons Signals is so good is it makes less assumptions about context than most music theory oriented channels. Musicians can tell from context whether a piece of information being communicated by a number is in reference a chord’s corresponding scale, the key signature of a piece in which the note occur’s or the role of a chord in functional harmony - for the beginner it’s as befuddling as all get out the way ‘ones’ and ‘fifths’, ‘firsts and thirds’ are bandied about. For pedagogical reasons music educators when addressing beginners should use the extra words needed to always explicitly explain the context in which references to degrees should be interpreted.
Thanks for examples, like Over the Rainbow, such a luscious classic, to really let me hear the simple nuance of major and minor key melodies. Should be every guitarists first lesson. Helps to understand the 44454 interval tuning of E standard. In average pinky reach.
I subbed to your channel this year and am now going through the backlog of these older videos. Thanks so much for making theory and the concepts of color and emotional content in chords and scales so much more accessible.
The confusing part for me is in the key the g major I never heard someone say the a minor chord is 2-4-6 instead they build it 1-b3-5 then an amsus2 does have the second scale degree but it’s the root and the 2 is referring to the B but that’s the 3rd scale degree in G makes my head spin sometimes
You're my best teacher on TH-cam.. So my question is how can make my fingers fast and how can I move the whole neck in one key And how can use chords to get perfect fills and riffs Thank you so much
Btw, I just released a video about the most metal sounding scale)) I'm curious to hear your thoughts. P.S. Sorry for off-top. How did you get that 'Community' tab? Seems like it's still a rare thing on TH-cam
Ahh! Awesome! An octatonic scale! I've heard it called the "diminshed" scale before too but I don't think that's a proper name. Wonderful video... I'll be doing one on Mixolydian b6 soon because it's just lovely. As far as the community tab is concerned, I can't even tell you- my phone offered it to me one day and i posted a poll, then the next day, the option to view it was completely gone. They gaveth, they taketh away. Thanks for watching Andriy!
So am I right in saying it’s really important to know the major scale to base every other scale off that structure? Like how you used the minor pentatonic as the example, the root being the 1 and the rest their respective numbers?
Howdy Jake... I've seen about a half dozen of your videos so far, and they're all first rate. I subscribed after watching the first one. Have you done a session, or are you aware of one out there in the youtubiverse that surveys commonly-used symbology in chord designations? I look at a lot of different resources and have been seeing not only the commonly used stuff like sharp, flat, maj, min, 5, 7, 9, 11,13, slash (chord over bass note), circles (diminished), plus signs (augmented), but also things like DELTAS, MINUS SIGNS, slashed circles... A compendium of these might be helpful. Thanks, keep 'em coming!
You and Brian Kelly from Zombie Guitar are the most perfect teachers on TH-cam.Fuck Berklee you two are the actual institutions! Ps actually berkelees pretty awesome I just said that bcuz I can't get into Berklee lol.
I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR SAYING BUT I HAVE NOT MEMORIZED MY FRET BORD YET SO THAT SLOWS ME DOWN. BUT I FEEL HAVE MISSED SOMETHING BETWEEN THE CORD OF SCALES.FOR IT TO FLOW.
Hi thanks for your fantastics videos it helps me a lot ! But I still don't understand smthg of thoses degrees, it's how to find em in differents scales. I mean intervals in a major scale or minor are not the same and etc...i think we just have to learn intervals of each scale by heart and that's it ? Thx again
Hi Jake, i can't count the number of vids i saw of you, and from wich i learned a lot. When i'm looking for a subject that i want to learn, i come out in many cases on your vids. And thank you for the very interesting and helpfull infos. Now i would ask if you 'forgot' the 'b' with F on minute 2:39 of this video, as you marked the 7 with a 'b', as well as on 3:05. (Also in God Chords vid on 2:51) The fact that you didn't wrote the b more than once, may be intentional and NOT a mistake. Is it ? (hope this is not a silly question) Greetings from Patrick in Zellik, near Brussels in Belgium and keep up the good work. PS : i'm wondering : with your talent and knowledge, what are you doing in music industry : a professional in music , maybe singer, guitarist or ... with a popgroup ?
Thank you for your excellent help. At 2:57 you play G7, then point out the intervals, but the 3rd degree in the explanation is not included in the chord. Can you please explain?
@Signals Music Studio So, is this nomenclature always relative to the major scale (being the major scale the reference point)?. Can you describe any of the other modes of the major scale by a function 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 directly or it has to be describe with degrees relative to the major scale?
Why do musicians think in terms of scale degrees instead of note names? Vocalist: "OK, I need you guys to do this song in G. I can't hit all the high notes in A". Guitarist: "But, I learned the song in G. I don't know it in A." Band: "You're fired".
When playing a 7th chord and there's not enough room for all the notes in the chord shape you are playing, then the perfect 5th is the note that is ommited in favour of the 7th because it is the most 'neutral' sounding note in the chord. If you omitt the 3rd, then the chord loses it's major/minor tonality and therefore is no longer a major/minor chord You can only omitt a 1 if there are other root notes in the chord
To me there is no difference between scale degrees and intervals. I was told to call them intervals. However I can accept that others call it that way.
It's perfectly correct to call scale degrees by their interval from the tonic of the scale, but there *is* a difference. Every scale degree is an interval, but not every interval is a scale degree. Intervals aren't always counted from the tonic and the notes that comprise an interval aren't always in the scale.
Yep. Starting at C, all the white keys on a piano are the notes in the key of C major. There are 7 of them, B is the 7th, and then you're back to C again, an octave higher.
You should use the actual names like Dominate and Supertonic rather then just numbers with flats and sharps tacked on to the end because that is wrong this information is misleading and is going to make it harder to talk with other musicians rather then easier and well we do say 3rd or 7th degree we know what those degrees are so when someone says lets pivot off the V chord here into the dominate scale with a flatten 7th implying that you're going to be borrowing from the relative minor they're going to be mad confused because all they know is 7b as a scale degree rather then the actual name and relationship that's implied by that degree
This is just superb, I've been looking for "how to write a song guitar" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Peynharlotte Acoustic Smasher - (just google it ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my friend got amazing success with it.
My bad for trying to be helpful on the Internet I guess. I'll make sure to study all the ways of "being fun at parties" that I possibly can to atone for this grave sin, whomever that shit benefits...
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I like how every video is so darn USEFUL
THANK YOU! Thrilled that it's helping :)
@@SignalsMusicStudio useful is an understatement, it is incredible how much important and crucial information you can convey so effectively within the span of a video, i have been a casual player for years and never paid attention to any theory, looking at some of your videos past week enriched me more than my past 10 years of goofing around
When I talk about the flatted 3, I forgot to add the FLAT sign (b) to the B at 01:48. I also invented the word "complose" at about 03:03
I laughed so hard on "complose"
I went back to see complose. 😄
Love that you don't take yourself too seriously man! 😁 Finally started looking through your back catalog, really enjoying the content!
At rehearsals Jake we now complose and arrange the tunes ..
Ha ha thanks - you make music a happy place to be ..
I've been playing guitar for 20ish years (self taught, and have read a lot of books on music theory). I have to say your videos are amazingly helpful!!! I've learned things on from watching your videos that I wish I would've known for the last 20 years. Great explanations! Awesome job!
I love how often i can learn something from these videos and apply it to my piano. like the meet the modes vidoe.
I was just going to say the same thing. I have learned so much from him for my piano.
And vise versa. It's awesome stuff
You're clutch with these. The guitar course for Rhythm is so effing clear and sensible.
Isn't this technically relatively close to basic music theory? Change "C D E" to "Do Re Mi" and/or "1 2 3," etc., and you've got the keys to unlock playing any song in any key, and not just on the guitar! After I took just two semesters of college-level music theory, I decided that information out to be more available at the Secondary school level, or even elementary. Learning scale degrees is so useful on the guitar, I started applying it to the piano and other instruments. Let's say you learned all your scales by scale degrees instead of by note names. If someone gave you a song in scale degrees instead of note names, or even Do Re Mi, you could theoretically play the song in any key with very little trouble, and NO tedious note-by-note transposing!
So well done, thank you! Takes me back to my very first guitar lesson: major scale is W W H W W W H steps…. Never forgotten 🙂
I am so glad I found this channel. Thank you. Learning theory without it being unbelievably hard to follow!
I'm a hundred percent giving this to my guitarist friend who doesn't know anything about theory. Thank you for getting this out there.
Thanks so much I can write some progression by now
You sir are now my guitar teacher. I've never had one before because I dislike people so. But you, you're not obnoxious or pretending to be that which you are not. I didn't like you so very much when I'd first started watching because as I had mentioned previously, I don't like people, but you sir are very generous with your knowledge and convey it in such a way we layman's can understand.
🤘 🧐
One of the best lessons on TH-cam ... I ve been looking for this for so many days, finally I got it ... I feel like I m a guitarist now .. I like the way you teach its very helpful. Thank you so much. Keep uploading more videos Sir!
This was the best example I’ve found yet online about scale degree.
Your videos are very professional, as a musician, i really enjoy your way of teaching. Very authentic (not like all these youtube clowns these days).
Thanks much Steven!
Thank you for helping with my music theory knowledge and making me a more generous lover 😜
Not talking down on other guitar channels on youtube, however you simply have a way of delivering in depth information that just allows my brain to soak up this knowledge insanely quick. I have learned so much in the month I have known about your channel. Cheers! Hope to see you at NAMM someday (whenever we are allowed to do those things again)
I absolutely love your teaching method. To the point, clear (the most important part) and crazy useful. Great job, don't stop.
Great video! One important thing that you forgot to mention is that all 12 major scales have the same pattern of notes. This makes scale degrees incredibly useful because you can talk about concepts in any key by using the same terminology. For example, the “flat 3rd” is always three half-steps above the root, no matter which root note you’re using. Thanks, Jake!
Yep, just learn the major in and out
That made sense to me. Music theory never did make sense, to me.
You are a good teacher.
Thank You.
All the best.
Honestly man this video was so important for me two years ago. Thank you
The difficulty here for players will be if you don't know your notes on the fretboard and can quickly distinguish the E-F and B-C intervals as it does depend on the starting degree or note as well which determines the placement...but this video teaches it way better than when I learned years years ago
Great channel man, would be nice to hear you talk about rhythm more!
Nospoko it shall be done! Im working on a heavy duty polyrythm lesson so stay tuned :)
Subscribed! Three minutes in, I've already learned an amazing concept that I didn't know I needed so badly since I started playing music in middle school. Thanks for making this.
Much love for this video, man!!!
‘Kinda...’ Yep. The missing piece here is some explanation of how any note in the same piece of music might be given a different degree when musicians communicate. When talking about chord structures musicians use the major scale that shares the same root as the chord as the reference (1 or root) for the degrees (notes) in the chord. But any note in the chord will be a different degree in the key the music is written in (unless the chord being discussed is the tonic I guess). Then we have the chord degrees in functional harmonies which use the same set of numbers (+ qualifiers) for chords. One of the reasons Signals is so good is it makes less assumptions about context than most music theory oriented channels. Musicians can tell from context whether a piece of information being communicated by a number is in reference a chord’s corresponding scale, the key signature of a piece in which the note occur’s or the role of a chord in functional harmony - for the beginner it’s as befuddling as all get out the way ‘ones’ and ‘fifths’, ‘firsts and thirds’ are bandied about. For pedagogical reasons music educators when addressing beginners should use the extra words needed to always explicitly explain the context in which references to degrees should be interpreted.
that guitar is so clean
Thanks for examples, like Over the Rainbow, such a luscious classic, to really let me hear the simple nuance of major and minor key melodies. Should be every guitarists first lesson. Helps to understand the 44454 interval tuning of E standard. In average pinky reach.
I subbed to your channel this year and am now going through the backlog of these older videos. Thanks so much for making theory and the concepts of color and emotional content in chords and scales so much more accessible.
Thank you for sharing, it really help me
That tone is perfect for “Aqualung”.
I already knew it. But you explained it really well! Thanks.
Fantastic teacher. And lovely personality. Love your lessons
Thank you so much for putting all this information out here for free!
Good teacher, clear easy and simple.
All videos are useful for beginner to advanced level!! Thanks buddy!!! From Nepal
Thank you so much bro. I really appreciate your videos. As a lead guitarist in multiple bands I thank thee.
i never even thought of those... thanks so much.
Best teacher out there!
The confusing part for me is in the key the g major I never heard someone say the a minor chord is 2-4-6 instead they build it 1-b3-5 then an amsus2 does have the second scale degree but it’s the root and the 2 is referring to the B but that’s the 3rd scale degree in G makes my head spin sometimes
Excellent video thankyou
appreciate your teaching style man
Straight business. He just tryna help us get better
These videos are really really helpful!! Keep em videos coming! Subscribed!!
Love your work really clear and well organised material.
You're my best teacher on TH-cam..
So my question is how can make my fingers fast and how can I move the whole neck in one key
And how can use chords to get perfect fills and riffs
Thank you so much
Nice! Thank you.
seems to me you could through the chord circle . great explanation !
Btw, I just released a video about the most metal sounding scale)) I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
P.S. Sorry for off-top. How did you get that 'Community' tab? Seems like it's still a rare thing on TH-cam
Ahh! Awesome! An octatonic scale! I've heard it called the "diminshed" scale before too but I don't think that's a proper name. Wonderful video... I'll be doing one on Mixolydian b6 soon because it's just lovely. As far as the community tab is concerned, I can't even tell you- my phone offered it to me one day and i posted a poll, then the next day, the option to view it was completely gone. They gaveth, they taketh away. Thanks for watching Andriy!
Signals Music Studio Thanks a lot for your videos!
Scale Degrees Tyson in action!
Love you videos. You should also be a radio or TV guy. Your voice is priceless.
Thanks
So am I right in saying it’s really important to know the major scale to base every other scale off that structure? Like how you used the minor pentatonic as the example, the root being the 1 and the rest their respective numbers?
Thankyou
Howdy Jake... I've seen about a half dozen of your videos so far, and they're all first rate. I subscribed after watching the first one.
Have you done a session, or are you aware of one out there in the youtubiverse that surveys commonly-used symbology in chord designations?
I look at a lot of different resources and have been seeing not only the commonly used stuff like sharp, flat, maj, min, 5, 7, 9, 11,13, slash (chord over bass note), circles (diminished), plus signs (augmented), but also things like DELTAS, MINUS SIGNS, slashed circles...
A compendium of these might be helpful.
Thanks, keep 'em coming!
You and Brian Kelly from Zombie Guitar are the most perfect teachers on TH-cam.Fuck Berklee you two are the actual institutions!
Ps actually berkelees pretty awesome I just said that bcuz I can't get into Berklee lol.
Great video , great teacher
Awesomeness!
Thanks, I just realized I have been doing the minor scale all wrong for a wile. I have been flatting 3 and 5, instead of 3, 6 and 7.
Damn this nerd can shred. I'm converting
I need to know how you know so much, Jake.
Good video 👍🏻
Good video!
So the major scale is the reference point for everything then? A degree is flatted in relation to the major.
Scale degrees seem to be sharps and Flats 😀also known as scale degrees for future reference.
I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR SAYING BUT I HAVE NOT MEMORIZED MY FRET BORD YET SO THAT SLOWS ME DOWN. BUT I FEEL HAVE MISSED SOMETHING BETWEEN THE CORD OF SCALES.FOR IT TO FLOW.
Hi thanks for your fantastics videos it helps me a lot ! But I still don't understand smthg of thoses degrees, it's how to find em in differents scales. I mean intervals in a major scale or minor are not the same and etc...i think we just have to learn intervals of each scale by heart and that's it ? Thx again
Plese get back to this channel....PLEAAAASSSSEEEE😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Hi Jake, i can't count the number of vids i saw of you, and from wich i learned a lot. When i'm looking for a subject that i want to learn, i come out in many cases on your vids. And thank you for the very interesting and helpfull infos. Now i would ask if you 'forgot' the 'b' with F on minute 2:39 of this video, as you marked the 7 with a 'b', as well as on 3:05. (Also in God Chords vid on 2:51) The fact that you didn't wrote the b more than once, may be intentional and NOT a mistake. Is it ? (hope this is not a silly question) Greetings from Patrick in Zellik, near Brussels in Belgium and keep up the good work. PS : i'm wondering : with your talent and knowledge, what are you doing in music industry : a professional in music , maybe singer, guitarist or ... with a popgroup ?
Thank you for your excellent help. At 2:57 you play G7, then point out the intervals, but the 3rd degree in the explanation is not included in the chord. Can you please explain?
1:22 here's the dio? 🤘😎
So, how many hit songs have you written?
Scale degrees, are always referencing to the major scale?
@Signals Music Studio So, is this nomenclature always relative to the major scale (being the major scale the reference point)?. Can you describe any of the other modes of the major scale by a function 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 directly or it has to be describe with degrees relative to the major scale?
Also curious about this! Came to the comments to get clarity on difference between a flat 2 degree and a minor 2 interval.
2:00 Is that like the main riff of "Not to touch the Earth" by The Doors?
Are these scale degrees in Centigrade(?), or Fahrenheit(?)
N O D I S L I K E S ! ! ! ! !
when you mention the G in the key of two at the end is that the Neapolitan scale in the key of G?
How/where is something like his used?
Greetings, what about 7th chords? Not the degrees, but what actual chords (7th) to every scale( major). And the theory behind them. Thanks a lot!
You're not supposed to use them you have to shred them
should i learn every scale degree for all 5 major scale patterns individually or is there a more convenient way of doing it ?
Why b in a scale of G is flatted 3? When in a scale it's a major third which is mediant!!
What's this guy's name? cant go on calling him 'signals'!
Jake Lizzio!
Call him studio
Why do musicians think in terms of scale degrees instead of note names?
Vocalist: "OK, I need you guys to do this song in G. I can't hit all the high notes in A".
Guitarist: "But, I learned the song in G. I don't know it in A."
Band: "You're fired".
Stupid question: All the C7 chords in my guitar chord charts seem to leave out the 5th ( the g). Is this just a matter of guitar fingering??
Theres 7 chords, then theres dom 7 chords
When playing a 7th chord and there's not enough room for all the notes in the chord shape you are playing, then the perfect 5th is the note that is ommited in favour of the 7th because it is the most 'neutral' sounding note in the chord.
If you omitt the 3rd, then the chord loses it's major/minor tonality and therefore is no longer a major/minor chord
You can only omitt a 1 if there are other root notes in the chord
To me there is no difference between scale degrees and intervals.
I was told to call them intervals.
However I can accept that others call it that way.
It's perfectly correct to call scale degrees by their interval from the tonic of the scale, but there *is* a difference. Every scale degree is an interval, but not every interval is a scale degree. Intervals aren't always counted from the tonic and the notes that comprise an interval aren't always in the scale.
So scale degrees are just the number you give to each note of a key?
coming from guy with zero music knowledge btw
"Flat" and "flatted" convey exactly the same information. You know, just because.
You're doing everything right except you do go a bit fast for some people I would imagine
So after the 7 it start over
Yep.
Starting at C, all the white keys on a piano are the notes in the key of C major.
There are 7 of them, B is the 7th, and then you're back to C again, an octave higher.
👍👍💙💙
You should use the actual names like Dominate and Supertonic rather then just numbers with flats and sharps tacked on to the end because that is wrong this information is misleading and is going to make it harder to talk with other musicians rather then easier and well we do say 3rd or 7th degree we know what those degrees are so when someone says lets pivot off the V chord here into the dominate scale with a flatten 7th implying that you're going to be borrowing from the relative minor they're going to be mad confused because all they know is 7b as a scale degree rather then the actual name and relationship that's implied by that degree
I understood... NOTHING! Lol
I’m getting so frustrated trying to learn theory
This is just superb, I've been looking for "how to write a song guitar" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Peynharlotte Acoustic Smasher - (just google it ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my friend got amazing success with it.
At 2:00 mins that 1 to flat 5 interesting interval sounds like
RUSH - YYZ intro
th-cam.com/video/LdpMpfp-J_I/w-d-xo.html
Wait, what if you flat every note in a scale? Hmmmmm🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
You get the same scale but its key is flatted.
You must be fun at parties
My bad for trying to be helpful on the Internet I guess. I'll make sure to study all the ways of "being fun at parties" that I possibly can to atone for this grave sin, whomever that shit benefits...
mike k I
Sir ji hindi me vidio banaen ok hindi me
This guy 👎
Nope.
Too confusing.