Do you have this exercise down? Are you able to play all over the fretboard while tracking the major scale numbers? Let me know in the comments!

@larrylynn2015

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Brilliant! Thank you.

@dennispope8299

11 ай бұрын

Just downloaded your chart and watched the first two videos. Jared, you are the first , and I have watched many videos, that approach from this angle and it is brilliant! I am a beginner and chord theory is my thing. I can play most of the open chords but this vision of understanding the intervals horizonally and vertically will pay great dividends in time. Thank you so much and I look forward to this journey!

This is probably the most important lesson any guitarist could ever take. Jered your a genius and a guitar saint. Can’t thank you enough !! 💯🎸

What great teaching. Everything is both "theory" and practical at the same time.

@soundguitar

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so! That's the sweet spot :) Thanks. ~~ Jared

Been learning guitar for a year and I WISH I had this video (and the next one), right from the start. This is the most useful and complete set of lessons I've found. Thank you! All the questions that I was unable to ask my guitar friends (because I didn't have the vocab) were answered by you, in the most concise way.

This is HUGE for anyone trying to decipher scales and beyond. Thank You!

Since encountering your lessons, I stay awake (and fall asleep) nights playing chord scales in my mind. I have the major down, now for the minors.

@soundguitar

2 жыл бұрын

haha Nice! I LOVE IT. That's great mental practice. You're in good company because I do the same thing actually :) Cheers ~~ Jared

This is quite the eye opener after getting frustrated memorizing shapes and simultaneously wondering what the shapes look like on other parts of the fretboard!

@soundguitar

2 жыл бұрын

So glad it helped!! ~~ Jared

I’ve been playing guitar for about 3 years now and I’ve always looked for a clear tutorial on a effective way to learn scales. This video makes SOO much sense😩. Love your content!!

This is truly a hidden gem considering it has only 36 views. Fantastic material.

@soundguitar

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Great video! Love the theory presented. Very powerful stuff. I can see how this really strengthens fretboard knowledge.

@soundguitar

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sean! I appreciate the feedback. Glad you found it helpful! :)

First time ever decided to comment on U tube video. After years of watching hundreds of videos on guitar/music theory, constantly searching for the video that teaches a concept better than another, your teaching method just made things click. Thanks. For improvment: you tend to speed up your hand movements and speech on the example parts, i.e. the important parts. Your video and sound quality is great but add closeup angles. You are so smooth that the important parts seem to blurr, i have to replay over and over. Slow down on the actual playing parts to show finger movements more clearly, or explain where you are as you move, for us slow pokes. Great work!

@soundguitar

3 жыл бұрын

That's great feedback and those are really helpful suggestions. Thanks so much! And I'm very glad to hear that the lessons are feeling helpful! Cheers :) -Jared

@mwilson70201

Жыл бұрын

If you go the tool icon on the video (looks like a gear in upper right hand corner) you can adjust the playback speed. Very helpful.

This is mind blowing. I wasn't sure where this was going and then connected with 1-3-5. so good

Just started the series and I have to say thank you for sharing your great knowledge with us. You are appreciated!

@soundguitar

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

I have watched dozens of guitar teachers on KZread. Some are very great teachers. You, however, are the absolute best teacher I've come across by far. Thank you so much for your material and guidance. Sincerely, thank you.

Wow. Wow. And wow... I just learned more about scales and the fretboard from this video than after 6 months of beginning guitar lessons! I've been extremely hungry for something exactly like this. Mind blown. You made that so clear and easy to understand. I'm feeling a deep shift in the way I'm starting to see the fretboard now. Great exercise. Thank you! Excited to dive into the entire series!

you are the most disciplined guitar teacher i have ever seen and thats what everybody needs.Thanks

@soundguitar

3 жыл бұрын

That's very kind of you, thank you

Such great information, you just unlocked more of the fretboard for me, thank you!

Wow, mind blown (in the most positive of ways)! Thanks for this!

@soundguitar

3 жыл бұрын

Right on! That's great to hear. Thanks for the comment :)

Thank you so much Jared for this series. It really is very helpful.

@soundguitar

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Glad it's helpful :) Thanks! :)

Awesome lesson. Bumping this for you! **edit --- Your Chords in Color pdf was great for ornamentation ideas!

This is very good Intel, Thank you my sir

@soundguitar

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! :)

Very good lesson, on the surface seems very basic, but very few of us really understand this important concept. Thank you!!

@soundguitar

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, thanks for watching! :)

I learnt guitar as a kid and always loved playing covers of songs (random pokemon town themes) but I always took a really long time to learn because all the theory I learnt came haphazardly from random one episode courses so I never really internalised the chords and how they work with scales. Now that I'm 20 I want to actually learn to play like an adult would lol, so this course looks like a good way to start. On the bright side, my hands are used to some chord shapes already, but there are a few bad habits that I need to break ngl xc. Maybe once I get the fundamentals down I'll have a better idea of how to play the songs that I'm always making up in my head but are too hard not to play lol

Just starting to work on it right now but...... I will soon. Back to the wood shed :)

@soundguitar

2 жыл бұрын

Right on!!!

🤯🤯 awesome

Thanks! This is great material

@soundguitar

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! Thank YOU

YOU, my friend... give me hope!

@soundguitar

2 жыл бұрын

that's what you give me!

Thanks!

@soundguitar

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!! :)

I hate learning "shapes" with no rhyme or reason. This is a great lesson!

I like that you are starting your videos with a some music now. Also "The Source of Chords" sounds like the title of a fantasy adventure novel.

@soundguitar

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah a student who watches a lot of guitar videos recommended that I always start with playing before talking so I'm going to start doing that. For some reason I always thought I should be saying what the video is about right away, but the thumbnail and title already do that enough, and playing real music immediately does feel a bit more welcoming and fun to watch. Thanks for the feedback! HAHA, I know! I like the idea of being a sorcerer of chords :)

Thanks man, this is very helpful

@soundguitar

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped

brilliant and learning tons. but one question: i’m encountering one “clunker” note as i try to explore. my guess is this pattern works in one direction but not another. i feel like i’m over complicating abs that’s maybe where i need a bit of clarity. if i’m traveling across the fret board, sometimes in an attempt to be more adventurous i’ll go down or up to another string but it won’t be in the scale count at all. does this make sense? can you tell me what’s happening there? my apologies if this sounds vague it’s just difficult to explain in a comment box!

I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY HE GOT ONLY 2k SUB. SMOOTH AS DANG!

@soundguitar

3 жыл бұрын

CHEERS!!

nice lesson ...Best of luck from srilanka

@soundguitar

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

Great lesson. I quickly grasped the concept of following the major pattern along the strings. However I didn't quite fully understand how to do it across the strings. I know how to play a major pattern, but the way you just did it, I wasn't able to understand. Do you have a chart or another video that goes over this?🤷🏽‍♀️

This is a huge Aha moment video for me. I was thinking shapes, shapes, shapes. This let's you play any scale in a very free way all over the fretboard. 11:49

im new to guitar, and am wondering how about B on the low E string? does the method not work? or is it because its only one fret apart than the usual 2

Cool little exercise. Can you keep track well enough when you are improvising?

@soundguitar

Жыл бұрын

Eventually it's not a matter of needing to keep track, it's just known while playing and improvisng like knowing that a fork is a fork or a spoon is a spoon when you pick them up to use them, you don't have to think about it, you just know.

❤️❤️

@soundguitar

2 жыл бұрын

Only one thing is confusing me right now. When I´m on the six string how can I come up on the other strings again with a whole or halfstep step? But maybe that confusion will dissolve withthin the next lessons =D

Great but 50 years of messing about I certainly have no chance of spanning 5 frets!!!!!!

@soundguitar

3 жыл бұрын

No problem! If playing the half steps harmonically together feels like too much of a stretch-which is totally normal-just play each one after the other and shift your hand position to get to each note staying nice and relaxed.

I've been playing for years and am deeply ashamed I've never had the discipline to go through this process. I'm very interested in chord theory but have not solidified this essential skill.

I grew up thinking chords came from storks.

@soundguitar

3 жыл бұрын

HAHA 🤣 that's good

I’m still confused, I’ve been trying to understand how a guitar works for months and I still don’t udnerstand

That 7 just made it more confusing to me.

This really doesn't sound or look like a total beginners lesson. Like how did the number 7 and up replacing the number 2 on the low E string? Where did the 7 come from like 2 all of a sudden became a 7 I don't get that at all.

@doughboy766

2 ай бұрын

He explained it earlier in the video. The numbers represent where along a major scale you are. i.e. the number 7 represents B in the C major scale and the number 2 represents D in C major. However, the number 7 represents F# and 2 represents A in G major. Furthermore, the same note will have a different scale degree based on what major scale it’s part of. B might be 7 in C major, but is 3 in G major. Given this, you can see that the same scale degree (the number) is actually a different note based on what scale you’re playing. In the video, he was showcasing a practice routine where you actually choose what scale degree you’re currently playing. Now that you have a scale degree, you essentially map out what major scale you’re playing.

So, I am grateful to learn from musicians such as yourself, Jared, but I am confused by a few simple things pretty much all the time. One of them is why no one has ever told me the simple truth about crossing strings. It's 5 half steps, or 5 frets. That's it, super simple. Now, I can move to a higher string and find any note I want. If I go straight across, it's a perfect 4th. Go back one and it's a major 3rd. Go forward 2 and it's a perfect 5th. And of course, the distance from the 3rd string to the 2nd is 4 half steps instead of 5, so straight across is a major 3rd. Memorizing a whole step or half step shape? Really? One piece of information and I know the whole step shape and the half step shape and the minor 3rd, major 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, major and minor 6th, major and minor 7th, the octave, the 9th, the 11th, the 13th, all rolled into one. Just sayin'.